Corina Belcea, violin
Suyeon Kang, violin
Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola
Antoine Lederlin, violoncello
The Belcea Quartet has been a regular visitor to ENF over the past 17 years. In 2023 it actually plays just one quartet (Debussy) and all its other concerts are collaborations with what it describes as the ‘dream team’ of chamber music partners. This reflects the imagination, openness and sense of adventure the quartet has shown right since its earliest days: the two founding members, the Romanian violinist Corina Belcea and the Polish violist Krzysztof Chorzelski, brought a very different artistic provenance to the ensemble in 1994, which was expanded by the French musicians Axel Schacher (violin) and Antoine Lederlin (violoncello). Their repertoire ranges from the core masterworks to new works by contemporary composers such as Penderecki, Larcher and Turnage. These commissioned works are created in association with the quartet’s own foundation, whose aim is to continually broaden the string quartet literature as well as to support young quartets through concentrated joint coaching sessions. In this way they can also pass on to the next generation the experience they gained as students of the Amadeus & Alban Berg Quartet. The quartet’s discography is diverse: recent releases include a Shostakovich Album and the string quartets by Janáček with Ligeti’s ‘Metamorphoses nocturnes’ (2019). From 2017 to 2020, the quartet was the Ensemble in Residence of the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and since 2010 they have been part of a shared string quartet cycle at the Konzerthaus Vienna.
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