Cuarteto Quiroga

Thanks also to the whole academic community, to Director #BernardLanskey and to the students who played with so much commitment, sensitivity and enthusiasm. We truly hope to be back sometime! We love this place! Now, off to our next stop: #Sydney!

Thanks to Professor #DanieldeBorah for the joy of playing a couple of piano quintet concerts together and, very specially, for organizing these fantastic sessions of masterclasses and side-by-side playing with the talented chamber music students of this wonderful school.

We bade today farewell to the gorgeous city of #Brisbane, where we had an amazing week of work teaching intensively and performing several concerts at the #QueenslandConservatorium of #griffithuniversity.

Many thanks to #UkariaCulturalCentre & all their team for their warm & hospitable welcome upon our arrival in Adelaide! We thoroughly enjoyed our stay at #TwinPeaks & our 1. concert on Australian soil, in one of the most unique chamber music halls we’ve ever played in!
Next stop: #QCGU Brisbane!

Altogether we will play music by Mozart, Brahms, Ginastera, Halffter, Canales, Turina, Granados, Schumann, Dvorak, Taneyev.
So looking forward!!!!
Check our website for exact dates, programs & venues. And stay tuned! We will keep you posted of our Australian adventures!

…on to Sidney for a concert at Sidney’s University organized by the #SpanishEmbassy to celebrate Spain’s National Day and then of to #HunterValley for a weekend-festival devoted to the great works for piano and string quartet, together with the great Australian pianist #DanieldeBorah!

Just landed in Australia! 😍🇦🇺❤️🎶🎻
So happy to start our 1st Australian Tour outside Adelaide, in the amazing #UKARIAculturalcenter. We’ll then visit Brisbane, where we’ll play & also do an intensive week of work with chamber music students of the #QueenslandConservatory,…

It is a real pleasure to have our colleague join the prestigious institution where our quartet studied with professors Rainer Schmidt and Walter Levin.

t is an honor to announce that our violinist #AitorHeviaSesma has joined the faculty of #EscuelaReinaSofía from this academic year as associate teacher in Prof. Christoph Poppen's violin class, alongside Miguel Colom.

Nuestro violinista @csierrav.bsky.social publica hoy @elcultural.com “Elogio del Esfuerzo: contra la indolencia y el diletantismo”

✍️“Reivindicar hoy el esfuerzo es defender la complejidad de la democracia y la razón del logos frente a la barbarie clasista y anti-ilustrada”

Disfrútalo y comparte!

As always, it has been a pleasure to return to Schiedam to record our next CD for #cobrarecords who are celebrating their 25th anniversary. Every musician knows that the recording process is always challenging & strenuous, but thanks to our dear #TomPeeters everything becomes enjoyable & exciting.

Thanks to #jjmmciutadella & #pilicarreras for inviting us to participate in the 53rd Festival de Música d’Estiu Ciutadella. It was moving to share Haydn's breathtaking music, The 7 Last Words of Christ, with the attentive audience that came to the Seminary of Sant Agustí. Long live the festival!

Thanks also to all the human and artistic team of the festival #kulturforeningenkatrina and #marienhamnskultur. It has been a pleasure to participate again, and we are already looking forward to returning in the future to this Baltic paradise!

Thanks dear Cecilia for inviting us to this wonderful festival & special thanks to the great #minnaleinonen for composing the fabulous piece #Soisin, which we had the joy to co-premiere.

Our 2nd visit to the #katrinachambermusicfestival has come to an end, & we leave the beautiful island of Åland with lots of wonderful memories of these past few days sharing music with amazing musicians, such a #jennycarlstedtmezzo & our beloved friend & admired violinist #CeciliaZilliacus.

As always, it is a pleasure to visit Donostia and its #quincenamusical! Last Saturday we performed Joseph Haydn's breathtaking Seven Last Words of Christ at #santelmomuseoa, before an attentive audience that welcomed us with warm enthusiasm. We hope to return soon with much more great music!

How wonderful to begin our summer concerts in the beautiful village of Asciano! Many thanks to #collegiumvocalegent for inviting us to participate in their beautiful festival #cretesenesi, performing Haydn's #7LastWords. It was a privilege to be part of this year's programme, see you soon, friends!

We share with you today the exciting music of the second movement of Franz Schubert's Quartet D.810, inspired by the Lied ‘Death and the Maiden’, and recorded by #NoahShaye at the Auditorio Nacional de Madrid last February 2024 during our 20th anniversary season as ensemble in residence of the #CNDM

YouTube video by CuartetoQuiroga Schubert String Quartet in d minor, “Death and The Maiden” 2nd mov/ Cuarteto Quiroga - Live sound!

“Gib deine Hand, du schön und zart Gebild,
Bin Freund, und komme nicht zu strafen.
Sei gutes Muts! ich bin nicht wild,
Sollst sanft in meinen Armen schlafen!”

youtu.be/aDBrhh9xHnE

We had a grand time yesterday on stage at the fabulous hall of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, playing Mendelssohn Octet and Brahms Sextet on the day of his 192nd birthday. Thanks to the Unione Musicale of Torino for making it possible: we can’t wait to have the chance to return!

What a joy to play once again with our dear & admired friends of the #DoricStringQuartet. There is nothing better than sharing music with true friends performing for such an attentive & enthusiastic audience!

Thank you very much, dear Ib for the invitation, and thanks to everyone in the audience for the attentive listening and such an enthusiastic welcome… and see you very soon!

Yesterday we enjoyed the amazing acoustics & atmosphere of the #Wiesbadenercasinogesellschaft. To have been part of the programme of the DieKammermusik cycle in #Wiesbaden this season is a true joy that we have to thank to the great Ib Hausmann, at the head of this wonderful initiative.

…or Dminor quartet by ElfridaAndrée. For us it is always wonderful to discover different music & to open the boundaries of our musical cartography, including in the programme the beautiful piece by Cecilia Diaz Pestano, ‘Los ojos del espejo’. And now... on our way to Wiesbaden!

Yesterday we returned again to our beloved Ickinger Frühling #klangweltklassik, where our friends HermannWeidner & BettinaGaebel & families welcome us as if we were in our own home. It was an honour to share with the audience some little-known gems from the history of music, such as Canales op3/5…

Sempre é un pracer tornar a Lugo, é facer musica no fermoso CírculodasArtes onde sentímonos acollidos coma na nosa propia casa, grazas ao agarimo do público da SociedadeFilharmónica e de toda a súa organización.
¡Graciñas a toda a xente que encheu onte o Salón Rexio a até a vindeira ocasión!

On Wednesday we had the honour of returning to the legendary #accademiafilarmonicabologna, founded 1666 & where all the great names of European music have played, including Mozart (1770), whose K.428 quartet we played in our concert. A true bliss & a great pleasure that we hope to repeat soon!

…the #TeatroCarloFeliceGenova the day before yesterday & at the Auditorium Pollini in Padua last night.
Many thanks to #gogenovese, #amicimusicapadova & #CesareVenturi for making possible this Italian tour that brought the 8 of us together again! We see each other soon again… May 7th in Torino!

It's really bliss to tour as an octet: twice as many quartet players, twice the pleasure! Especially if the colleagues & friends who join us are our dear & admired #Doricstringquartet… & the magic continues on stage, enjoying playing together with so much human & artistic affinity as we did at…

It is a true & unique delight to share music with such great musicians & last night we were able to enjoy together the 2nd Brahms sextet & the famous Mendelssohn octet. Many thanks to #vjkleer for inviting us and bringing the 8 of us together again!