The Modigliani Quartet plays Schubert, Mendelssohn and Dvořák

Youth is often a whirlwind period, infused as much with crippling doubts as with glowing self-confidence. At twenty-three years old and with hundreds of musical compositions already behind him, Schubert was nonetheless experiencing the a serious crisis. Increasingly unable to finish what he began, his poignant single movement quartet, Quartettsatz testifies to this period of his artistic life. For Mendelssohn, youth was completely different. Just eighteen years old but at the height of his powers, he demonstrates his assured talents in his brilliant Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13. As for Dvořák, his trip to the United States pushed him into a second youth, a productive compositional moment during which he composed his "American” Quartet — the last work that completes this Romantic triptych.

Hailed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as “one of today’s best quartets in the world... Balance, transparency, symphonic comprehension, confident style, their performance reached a very high and inspiring level,” the Modigliani Quartet performs regularly in some of the world’s top venues. Only one year after they were formed, the quartet attracted international attention in 2004 by winning the Frits Philips String Quartet competition in Eindhoven. The Quartet then took First Prize at the Vittorio Rimbotti competition in Florence in 2005 and won the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York in 2006. Since December 2016, Amaury Coeytaux has joined the quartet as its new first violin.

Photo: Modigliani Quartet © Marie Staggat