Summer Season

An intense summer of concerts for the Quartetto di Cremona, who will perform in several festivals in Italy, Finland and Holland, presenting a wide range of repertoire (Beethoven, Verdi, Respighi, Schubert, Shostakovich, Bach, Hindemith). After a concert at the very first edition of the Festival dedicated to Arturo Toscanini in Parma, July will be a whole Finnish month, with performances and masterclasses at the Lounais- Hämeen Musiikkipäivien Festival in Forssa (as artist in residence), in Kuopio and Savonlinna (in collaboration with the Italian Culture Institute, Helsinki) and in Kuhmo for their debut at the Chamber Music Festival. Back to Italy, will follow concerts from North to South of the Peninsula, also sharing the stage with the young and talented cellist Erica Piccotti.
The epilogue to this intense musical journey will be in Zeist, Holland, at the Zeist Music Days Festival, an opportunity to hear Cremona playing with Alexander Pavlovsky of the Jerusalem Quartet and artistic director of the festival.
Have a look to the Calendar section to discover all the QdC summer dates!

 June 2022

Standing Ovation At Lincoln Center

After almost a month, the Quartetto di Cremona looks back with joy and pride to one of the most prestigious and significant moments of its twenty-year career: the debut at the Chamber Music Society of The Lincoln Center in New York. The performance, held at the Alice Tully Hall, impressed the audience: at the end of the concert, long applause, several curtain calls and a standing ovation. There were also many enthusiastic reviews from the critics:
<< The playing was marked by admirable unanimity and blend […] an evening full of splendid music-making.>> Classical Source
<< This Italian group founded some 20 years ago, at the present time and in the opinion of many, carries the mantle of its legendary masters, the Quartetto Italiano which disbanded decades ago >>Concertonet.

March 2022

Season 2021/2022 – Parte 1

After an intense summer of concerts, the Quartetto di Cremona begins its 2021/2022 season at full speed, with several performances in Europe and with an extremely wide repertoire (among others, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mozart). Then, in the first part of November, the Cremona will be on tour in North America (Santa Monica, Houston and Montreal), where they will present also the “American” Quartet by Antonin Dvorak, their own interpretation of Bach’s “Art of Fugue” and will share the stage for the first time with American clarinetist David Shifrin for the performance of Anton Webern’s elaborate quintet.
Discover in the calendar section all the currently confirmed concerts until November 2021!

01 September 2021

Summer Concerts

The Quartetto di Cremona continues its summer concert activity with a European tour that will touch Finland, Denmark, Germany, Albania, France and Italy! And there will also be a small (virtual) stop in the USA for a concert followed by a Q&A session. In addition to their “traditional” repertoire (Beethoven, Bach, Schubert and Verdi, among others), in these summer concerts the QdC will perform composers who will enrich its already extensive repertoire and who will characterise the 2021/2022 season. Among them, Prokofiev, Ravel, Janaček, Dvorák. They will also present music by living composers (Nimrod Borenstein, Kalevi Aho) and welcome other musicians for quintet performances (Eckart Runge, Arben Llozi.)

Have a look to the Calendar section to discover all the QdC summer dates!

02 July 2021

Back to live concerts!

We are extremely excited to be back to live concerts, especially because the first three dates will be in our beloved home-country, Italy. However, our international fans won’t have to wait too long as we will be soon playing also in Finland, Denmark, Germany and France.
Check-out the calendar section to know more.

Follow us in streaming!

Do you miss listening to our live concerts? Well, we miss being close to our public and we do hope we can go back performing live very soon. In the meantime, follow our streaming concerts on YouTube!
Many thanks to all the dynamic and generous promoters who made the above and further more videos possible.
Bozen/Beethoven
Bozen/Schubert
Milano/Vacchi&Bach
Bologna/Bach&Vacchi&Beethoven

New Management for Austria, Germany, Switzerland

The Quartetto di Cremona is delighted to announce the collaboration with
Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management for the representation in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Knowing each other since a long time, Mark Buhl and the QdC are willing to start a new path together, both confident of upcoming positive achievements.

The Quartetto di Cremona wishes to express its gratitude to Konzertdirektion Goette and, in particular, to Sonja Schachermeier, for the past three years’ collaboration and for all the outstanding accomplishments.

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Quartetto di Cremona Celebrates 20th anniversary with a new recording: Italian Postcards

 

The award-winning Italian quartet Quartetto di Cremona celebrates its 20th year anniversary as an internationally acclaimed performing and recording ensemble with the release of their first album for AVIE Records: Italian Postcards. It’s a collection of music inspired by the sounds, landscapes, history and romance of Italy, written by non Italian composers: Nimrod Borenstein’s Cieli d’Italia, commissioned by the Quartet; Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade; Mozart’s very first String Quartet, “Lodi”; and Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet, “Souvenir de Florence”.

Violist Ori Kam (Jerusalem Quartet) and cellist Eckart Runge (former founding member of the Artemis Quartet) join the Cremona for the Tchaikovsky’s sextet.

«Italian Postcards» illustrates the Quartetto – «is about coming back to our country, where we started. It’s an homage to our “Bel Paese,” although seen through the eyes of foreign composers who were inspired by our country. We wanted a few pieces that would offer short musical “snapshots” of Italy, and the works by Mozart, Wolf and Borenstein worked perfectly for that. We have always loved Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” which here serves as a bigger, more substantial piece to balance out the shorter works. Plus, it provided us the opportunity to collaborate with two fantastic players and friends, Ori Kam and Eckart Runge».

Made possible by the Franco Buitoni Award received by the Cremona in 2019, this CD was recorded at the beautiful Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte.

Preview Italienische serenade

3 years ago

𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘦: 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰 from #StringQuartet in E minor, 𝐎𝐩. 𝟓𝟗 𝐧. 𝟐
with #Stradivari "𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐭" ... See more

Quartetto di Cremona performs the String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59-2 4° mov: Finale: Presto. The Quartetto di Cremona plays Stradivari "Paganini Quartet" on...

3 years ago

We continue our tribute to #Beethoven this week

and to his #StringQuartetsCycle

that we should have performed in 𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐧

𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘰 from ... See more

Quartetto di Cremona performs the String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59-2 2° mov: Molto adagio. Live at Palais des Nations, Geneva. Direction: Svenn Kuchen Sound...

3 years ago

The #weekend is coming, but today we have no particular 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 to give you except..
..to choose what you want to listen to from our YouTube ... See more

3 years ago

Another excerpt from our 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁 in #León, Spain
at Festival Internacional de Música de Cámara "Fundación Monteleón"

#Beethoven, 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ... See more

Quartetto di Cremona performs the String Quartet in C major, Op. 127 - I mov: Maestoso - Allegro teneramente. Live at Auditorio “Ciudad de León”, León. Inter...

3 years ago

What's on Friday evening? 𝐏𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐢
Today our mind's back to #Leon, Spain.
Festival Internacional de Música de Cámara "Fundación Monteleón"

Travel! Thanks to a ... See more

Quartetto di Cremona performs Crisantemi by Giacomo Puccini at the International Chamber Music Festival in León. Live at Auditorio “Ciudad de León”, León. In...

3 years ago

𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵:
we would have been on the stage of Cemal Reşit Rey Konser Salonu
with David Orlowsky

Not being able to reach #Istanbul, here's a clip, from last October,
of ... See more

3 years ago

Condividiamo con voi oggi alcuni ricordi del 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮, attraverso un video realizzato dal nostro Paolo Andreoli

“Il ... See more

3 years ago

Tomorrow, we should have been in #Milan,
playing 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐧 for Società del Quartetto di Milano.
A city and an association particularly dear to us.

To all of you, we want to dedicate
the ... See more

3 years ago

#Music, to start the weekend 𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 😎

From #Mozart's "𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗱𝗻" 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘁𝘀,
#QuartettoDiCremona performs
the 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 ... See more

From Mozart's "Haydn" Quartets, Quartetto di Cremona performs the String Quartet in A major, K 464 - 1° mov: Allegro. Live at Conservatorio "G. Verdi", Milan...

3 years ago

🎶🔊 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐧.𝟏
da "𝐋'𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐚" di #Bach

#QuartettoDiCremona
al Teatro Comunale Città di ... See more

Il Quartetto di Cremona (Cristiano Gualco e Paolo Andreoli violini, Simone Gramaglia viola, Giovanni Scaglione violoncello) esegue il Contrappunto n. 1 da l'...

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Quartetto di Cremona

Ede (Holland)

Ede Concertzaal
Schubert – String Quartet No. 13 in a, D 804 ‘Rosamunde’ Verdi – String Quartet in E Puccini – Crisantemi
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Assen (Holland)

Muziekkamer Assen
Podium Zuidhaege, De Schalm
Puccini, Verdi, Schönberg
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The Augue (Holland)

Den Haag Diligentia
Boccherini Quartet op.2 n.6 Verdi Quarte
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Genova (Italy)

GOG
Teatro Carlo Felice
Prokofiev, Goljiov, Schoenberg
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