Sundays@Noon Online : ConTempo Quartet

Sundays@Noon Online : ConTempo Quartet

Sunday, 28 February 2021, 12.00pm

The Spring series of the Sundays@Noon begins with a concert in association with the National String Quartet Foundation
featuring the ConTempo Quartet.

ConTempo Quartet: Bogdan Sofei - violin, Ingrid Nicola- violin, Andreea Banciu- viola, Adrian Mantu- cello

Ina Boyle [1889-1967] Quartet in E minor [1934]
1. Allegro moderato 2. Adagio
3. Allegro molto

Johannes Brahms [1833-1897]
Quartet No 2 in A minor Op.51 No.2 [1873]
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Andante moderato
3. Quasi Minuetto - moderato
4. Allegro non assai

The Contempo Quartet is the resident quartet of the Galway Music Residency and was RTÉ’s Resident Quartet from 2014 until 2019. Praised as a “fabulous foursome” (Irish Independent) and noted for performances which are “exceptional” (The Strad) and “full of imaginative daring” (The Irish Times), RTÉ ConTempo Quartet has forged a unique place in Irish musical life.
Since its formation in Bucharest in 1995, the quartet has performed more than 1,800 concerts world- wide in 46 countries, including prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall; Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; St Martin-in-the-Fields; Berliner Philharmonie; Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome; Carnegie Hall and the Opera House Tel-Aviv. ConTempo have had the honour to meet and play in front of world personalities such as Prince Charles, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, EU Ministers, Michael D. Higgins, Hollywood stars and Nobel Prize winners. The ensemble has won a record of 14 international prizes (including Munich, Rome, Berlin, Prague and London) and worked alongside artists of the highest calibre including Emma Johnson, Yuko Inoue, Hugh Tinney, Chen Zimbalista, Jérôme Pernoo, Peter Donohue and Martin Roscoe. Collaborations with other distinguished quartets have also been a feature, such as the Amadeus, Arditti, Vanbrugh, Casals and Endellion.

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Published by Concerts@Noon on 19 February 2021

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