The Modigliani Quartet

Biography

Amaury Coeytaux, violin

Loic Rio, violin

Laurent Marfaing, viola

François Kieffer, cello

The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani, founded in 2003, is respected around the world for its impassioned playing and sophisticated approach to classic repertoire.

This season, the quartet will tour North America and extensively throughout Europe. Highlights include appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Auditorio Nacional de Música CNDM in Madrid, Pollack Hall in Montreal, Flagey Hall in Brussels, the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, following many European summer music festivals, including the Vibre Festival in Bordeaux. The quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released twelve critically acclaimed and award-winning albums.

In 2014, the Modigliani Quartet became Artistic Directors of the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, a festival created in 1976 by Antoine Riboud and made famous through its former legendary artistic director Mstislav Rostropovich, after a pause of thirteen years. The joint efforts of the Evian Resort and the Modigliani Quartet achieved immediate success and the festival has now become again one of Europe’s major summer musical events. In 2016 they created a teaching Atelier within the Festival and has also hosted a series of masterclasses at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

The Modigliani Quartet has built true artistic friendships and regularly perform with other musicians such as Nicholas Angelich, Daniel Müller-Schott, Yefim Bronfman, Sabine Meyer, Beatrice Rana and Renaud Capuçon.

Thanks to the generosity and support of private sponsors, the Modigliani quartet plays on four outstanding Italian instruments:

Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1773 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini; Loïc Rio plays a 1780 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini; P Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 viola by Luigi Mariani; François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller.

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