November
20th 2010
Le Quatuor Ardeo
Olivia Hughes violin
Carole Petitdemange violin
Caroline Donin viola
Joelle Martinez cello
programme:-
Mozart String Quartet in G major KV80 (Lodi Quartet)
Bartok String Quartet No. 2
Beethoven String Quartet
Op 59 No.1 (Rasumovsky)
The Ardeo Quartet was
formed in 2001 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
et de Danse de Paris. In September 2004, it won three prizes at the Shostakovich
International String Quartet Competition in Moscow, followed by prizes
at the FNAPEC competition (Paris, May 2005); two prizes at the International
String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux (June 2005); at the International
Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne (July 2007); and at the Premio
Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia (June 2008).
It has benefited from the teaching of Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) at
the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia de Madrid during the academic
year 2004/2005 thanks to a bursary from the Sacyr company, and then at
the Instituto de Musica de Camera de Madrid in 2006/2007.
In March 2007, the Quartet released its first commercial CD, of the first
two quartets by Charles Koechlin. Chosen by Cultures France to benefit
from the DECLIC program, in collaboration with Radio France and Mécénat
Musical Société Générale (MMSG), the Ardeo
Quartet has also benefited from the support of the MMSG since 2005.
Joëlle Martinez plays a Charles Jacquot cello (1846) on loan from
the Zilber Foundation