Praised by France’s Le Progrès for their “Stunning technical expertise, outstanding ensemble and a particularly accomplished musical identity,” the MODIGLIANI STRING QUARTET appears in recital at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theatre during the 2008-2009 season, as well as at Waveny Chamber Music Society (CT), H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (Tortola), Franklin & Marshall College (PA), Evergreen House Foundation (MD), Art Power! at UC San Diego, The Paramount Theatre (VT) and Bryn Mawr College (PA).  In Europe, they perform at the Albeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Verbier and Roque d’Anthéron festivals, as well as at Wigmore Hall in London, the Louvre Museum and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many others.  They also tour Japan with pianist Jean-Marc Luisada in October of 2008.

The Quartet won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and the 2005 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Paris.  They were also awarded the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, which sponsored their New York debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, which sponsored their Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, the Gulbenkian Foundation Concert Prize for a concert in Paris, the Vancouver Recital Society Prize, the Princeton University Concerts Prize, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Prize, and the Sander Buchman Memorial Prize.

The Quartet has performed at renowned festivals and concert venues in Europe including the City of London Festival, Folle Journée (Nantes), Festival de l’Epau, Festival de Deauville, Festival du Périgord Vert, Festival du Périgord Noir, Théâtre de la Ville-Abbesses, and Théâtre Mogador in France, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Nederlands String Quartet Festival, and the Eindhoven Frits Philips Music Center in the Netherlands, the Festival Musika-Música in Bilbao, Spain, and the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in the U.K.  They have collaborated with many well-known artists, such as pianists Jean-François Heisser, Vanessa Wagner, Michel Dalberto, Bruno Canino, Abdel Rahman El Bacha and Alain Planès; cellists Gary Hoffman, Roland Pidoux, and Philippe Muller; and clarinetists Michel Portal and Karl-Heinz Steffens.  In 2006 the NASCOR label released the Quartet’s first CD, which includes works by Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and Mendelssohn.

At the 2004 TROMP International String Quartet Competition in the Netherlands, its first international competition, the Quartet was awarded First Prize, the Audience Prize, the Young Jury’s Prize and the Willem Vos Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work.  The Modigliani String Quartet was also awarded First Prize in the Vittorio E. Rimbotti Competition in Italy, and has received grants from the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire and SPEDIDAM.

The Modigliani String Quartet was formed in 2003 by four young musicians studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.  After studying there with the Ysaÿe Quartet, they were invited by the Artemis Quartet to work with them at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.  The Modigliani Quartet plays “The Evangelists,” a rare matching set of four instruments made in 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in Paris, on loan from the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

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