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TIZIANO BAVIERA: violin
ALBERTO FRANCHIN: violin
SARA DAMBRUOSO: viola
TOMMASO TESINI: cello
The Noûs Quartet, composed of four young Italian musicians, was founded in 2011 at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. The quartet received its training from the Quartetto di Cremona at the Accademia Walter Stauffer in Cremona, at the Basel Musik Akademie with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet). The musicians have also studied with Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet) and Aldo Campagnari (Quartetto Prometeo) and have attended the Lübeck Musikhochschule with Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet).
The Noûs Quartet won the first prize at the Luigi Nono International Competition in Venaria Reale, Turin, as well as the XXI Anemos International Competition in Rome. In 2014 it was awarded an honourable mention at the Sony Classical Talent Scout in Madesimo, Italy. In 2015 the quartet was awarded the Piero Farulli Prize, given to the best emerging chamber music group in the current year, as part of the XXXIV Franco Abbiati Award, the most prestigious Italian music critics’ award. It received from La Fenice Theatre, Venice, the Arthur Rubinstein – Una Vita nella Musica 2015 Award.
The Noûs Quartet has performed for important Italian concert seasons such as Società del Quartetto in Milan, Unione Musicale in Turin, Amici della Musica in Florence, Bologna Festival and Musica Insieme in Bologna, Società del Quartetto in Bergamo, Società Veneziana dei Concerti, Associazione Chamber Music in Trieste, Ravenna Festival, Mito Settembre Musica, I Concerti del Quirinale in Rome, Stradivari Festival in Cremona and Settimane Musicali in Stresa. The musicians have also collaborated with renowned artists such as Tommaso Lonquich, Andrea Lucchesini, Alain Meunier, Giovanni Scaglione, Sonig Tchakerian.
The quartet is regularly invited to perform in Germany, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, South Korea and China. In 2013 it was quartet in residence at Festival Ticino Musica in Lugano and the April of the same year it performed at IBK Camber Hall of the Seoul Arts Center.
PROGRAMME
Luigi Boccherini
String Quartet in D major op.8 n.1 G.165
Allegro Assai / Adagio / Rondeau-Allegro
Giacomo Puccini
“Crisantemi” – String Quartet elegy
Giuseppe Verdi
String Quartet in E minor
Allegro / Andantino / Prestissimo / Scherzo-Fuga. Allegro assai mosso
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Ottorino Respighi
String Quartet in D minor, P 91 “Ernst ist das Leben heiter ist die Kunst”
Allegro / Lentamente con tristezza / Presto / Allegro energico
This concert is part of Bellissima Italia 2017 and is supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.