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. This rigorous artistic vision was developed and nurtured through contact with their teachers: after graduating from a master’s degree in chamber music in the class of François Salque (Ysaÿe Quartet) at the CNSMDP, they were lucky enough to study several years with Hatto Beyerle, a founding member of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, within the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), of which the quartet has been a nominated member since 2018. In 2023, they completed their chamber music postgraduate studies at the Vienna Music University (MDW Wien) with Prof. Johannes Meissl, and became artists in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo (Belgium) under the direction of Corina Belcea, Miguel Da Silva and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. The quartet is also currently studying with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, as well as with the Modigliani String Quartet in Paris. They also benefited from the advice of many other great chamber musicians of our time, such as the Ebène Quartet at the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Kronos Quartet at Paris Philharmonie String Quartet Biennale, Ori Kam (Jerusalem Quartet) at the Ravel Academy, as well as Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet), Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Christophe Coin (Mosaïques Quartet), Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Alfred Brendel, Itamar Golan and Patrick Jüdt. The Metamorphoses Quartet won the ProQuartet prize at the FNAPEC European competition and the Tremplin for young quartets at the Philharmonie de Paris. They are also laureates of the Ravel Academy, as well as the Royaumont and Villefavard Abbey foundations. This career path has led them to perform in the most prestigious concert halls with renowned chamber musicians: Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Franz Liszt Academy Budapest, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, the Prades Festival, Quatuors à Bordeaux, the Potager du Roi in Versailles (at the invitation of Gérard Caussé and the Quatuor Modigliani), Cordes-sur-Ciel Festival, Festival des Arcs, Radio Classique Festival, Nuit du Quatuor next to the Hermès and Zaïde String Quartets, together with Nemanja Radulovic, Pierre Génisson, Laure Favre-Kahn, François Salque, Alexis Descharmes, Emmanuelle Bertrand, as well as Roman Borisov, Aurélien Pontier and Paul Zientara. The repertoire of the Metamorphoses Quartet ranges from the great masters of the genre to the exploration of the most contemporary repertoires, from Haydn to Camille Pépin, and 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 quartet is currently artist in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo, Belgium).
Corina Belcea, violon (Maître en résidence)
Miguel da Silva, alto (Maître en résidence)
Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, piano (Maître en résidence)
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