Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7:30pm
Merging Waters United Church, 24 Maple Avenue
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 2E6
Schubert (1797-1828)
Quartettsatz D. 703. Allegro Assai
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet Op. 41, No. 1
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
"Metamorphoses Nocturnes"
"A model of technical discipline, elegance and musical excellence" (La Croix, transl.), the QUATUOR MAGENTA was founded in 2021 and is already performing on France's most prestigious stages, from the Philharmonie de Paris to the Festival de Radio France Montpellier. Their "remarkable balance, flexibility and spontaneity" (Diapason, transl.) not only thrills their audiences, but led them to the finals of the 8th Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna, and earned them prizes at the 2023 FNAPEC competition (Académie des Beaux-Arts scholarship) and the 2022 Zukunftsklang Competition Stuttgart (3rd prize). November 2024 will mark the quartet's first international tour to Canada with six concerts in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, generously supported by the Centre National de la Musique and SPEDIDAM.
The Quatuor Magenta is based in Paris, France, where they are junior artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and ensemble-in-residence at Proquartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre. They have been invited to perform at numerous festivals in France, including the Musikfest Parisienne, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Un Temps pour Elles, Un Été en France with Gautier Capuçon and the Modigliani Quartet's Festival Vibre!, as well as in Switzerland (Festival de la Collégiale in Neuchâtel) and in Germany (Klangraum Konzerte in Cologne).
Last season, contemporary music had pride of place with Quatuor Magenta's participation in the Kronos Quartet's « 50 for the Future » Marathon at the Philharmonie de Paris' String Quartet Biennale. This season includes seven octet performances alongside the renowned Quatuor Van Kuijk, in partnership with La Belle Saison.
The Quatuor Magenta was honoured to participate in the inaugural year of the Élite program at the École Normale de Paris, under the mentorship of the Quatuor Modigliani. They currently study with the Quatuor Ébène at their quartet academy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, as well as with Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartet at the Basel University of Music. They are grateful for the support of the Safran Foundation and ADAMI. They work with Chapeau l'Artiste Production.