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Carducci String Quartet
Winner, 2007 CAG CompetitionVisit our YouTube page for video on Carducci! Already recognized as one of Europe’s top young quartets, the Carducci String Quartet’s North American career began auspiciously with its win at the 2007 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Hailed by The Times (London) as “stunning…clearly musicians of high intelligence,” the Quartet also captured First Prize at Finland’s Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition and major awards at the chamber music competitions in Bordeaux, London and Osaka. Season highlights for 2011-12 US tours include California performances at Pepperdine University and for the Music Guild of Los Angeles, an educational residency and concert for the Artist Series of Tallahassee and concerts for the Chamber Music Societies of Bethlehem, PA, Ashland, OR and Logan, UT. Recent featured US performances include the Carducci Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall on the CAG/Winners Series and itsWashington, DC debut at the Library of Congress, in addition to New York appearances on the Schneider Concerts series, Symphony Space’s Thalia Theatre on the CAG/New Works series and California concerts on the Stanford Lively Arts series and at Lancaster Performing Arts Center, as well as concerts for the Melbourne, Little Rock and South Bay (CA) Chamber Music Societies. The Quartet recently released its debut CD for the Naxoslabel, featuring the first four string quartets of Philip Glass, and the critics have given it a warm reception: “The Carducci Quartet’s performances are a marvel of sensitivity...” (The Sunday Telegraph). The ensemble will follow this release with a second Naxos CD by recording Glass’ fifth quartet and string sextet. The Quartet has established its own record label, Carducci Classics, launched with a CD of Haydn Quartets, and the most recent release features Mendelssohn’s F minor Quartet, Op. 80 and the Franck D Major Quartet. The Carducci Quartet has also recorded works by Vivaldi and Piazzolla with the Katona Twins Guitar Duo for Channel Classics. Internationally, the Carducci Quartet has toured England, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Colombia and Panama, and the foursome just returned from its debut tour of Australia. Recent UK performance highlights include London’s Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre, the Cheltenham Contemporary Music Society and the “Second Glance,” Kilkenny, Three Choirs, Exeter and Kings Lynn Festivals. Comprised of two married couples – one British and one Irish – the name ‘Carducci’ was bestowed upon the Quartet by the Mayor of that Italian city after he heard the ensemble in numerous concerts at the Castagnetto-Carducci Festival. Since then, the Carducci Quartet has been in residence at the Aldeburgh Festival and recently launched its own festival in Gloucestershire, UK. The Carducci Quartet regularly performs for UK school children through the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust and West Cork Music. Additional residencies include Ireland’s Cork School of Music, London’s Trinity College of Music, Cardiff University in Wales and a self-produced seminar for young musicians in France. The four Carducci players have studied with members of the Amadeus, Chilingirian, Takacs and Vanbrugh quartets, and they are the current Richard Carne Junior Fellows at Trinity College of Music. As part of the ProQuartet professional training program in France, they have studied with Gyorgy Kurtag, Paul Katz and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet.
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Matthew Denton, violin
