Profile & Special Focus
The Metamorphoses Quartet was born out of a strong desire to explore the repertoire of the string quartet and to share its demanding expressive strength and depth with an ever- widening audience, all united in one musical breath. The result is a series of metamorphoses, similar to those recounted by Ovid in his masterpiece to which the Quartet wished to pay homage: fleeting, perpetual, invisible, and above all plural. This art of living-together and playing-together transports performers and listeners in a large movement which goes far beyond their imagination and understanding; because a quartet is a four- headed beast, an ever-changing multifaceted instrument „human, too human“, to quote Nietzsche. Finally, metamorphosis is a form of variation, the sculpting process of silence and time by the musical element; variation is an ever underlying red thread throughout the whole history of music, for which metamorphosis would thus act as an etiological principle.
The ensemble endeavors to bring to light several little-known works through innovative projects, such as their show „Du coq à l'alouette“ entirely written by the Quartet and created in 2022, or „Une pièce bien à elles » (« A piece of their own »), entirely devoted to women composers, that they are committed to play in all types of places through their regular interventions at the SAMU social, in schools everywhere in France, in residential care homes (EHPAD). The Metamorphoses Quartet will also be part of a mediation project at the Villepinte prison this winter.
Awards
ProQuartet prize at the FNAPEC European competition
Tremplin for young quartets at the Philharmonie de Paris
Laureate:
Ravel Academy
Royaumont and Villefavard Abbey foundationsPartners, cooperations and past performances
Concerts at:
Wigmore Hall, London (UK)
Franz Liszt Academy Budapest (HU)
Teatro Goldoni, Florence (IT)
Festival de Prades; Quatuors à Bordeaux; Potager du Roi, Versailles; Cordes-sur-Ciel Festival; Nuit du Quatuor, Paris; Philharmonie de Paris (FR)
Festival des Arcs, Ehrendingen (CH)Collaborations with:
François Salque, Alexis Descharmes, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Roman Borisov, Aurélien Pontier and Paul Zientara.Upcoming concerts and tours
2023
1 December 2023: Auditorium Gien (FR)2024
11-14 January 2024: Biennale de Quatuors à Cordes, Philharmonie de Paris (FR)Ensemble & Instrumentation
Studied with:
Francois Salque at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
Johannes Meissl at mdw – University of Music and Parforming Arts ViennaMasterclasses with:
Ebène Quartet, Modigliani Quartet, Miguel Da Silva, Ori Kam, Petr Prause, Alfred Brendel, Itamar Golan, Patrick JüdtMathilde Potier - Violin 1
Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut - Violin 2
Jean-Baptiste Souchon – Viola
Madeleine Douçot - Cello
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