Belinfante Quartet

About Belinfante Quartet

The Belinfante Quartet is recognised as one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation, heralded for their engaging and innovative performances. Formed in the Netherlands in 2016, the quartet members come from The Netherlands, England, Scotland and Spain. They take their namesake from Dutch cellist, conductor and resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante.

The Belinfantes are well-known for incorporating folk music from around the world into their projects with the aim to open up the string quartet art-form to a wider diversity of music cultures. Working with today’s composers is at the heart of their mission. From Sally Beamish to Caroline Shaw, they have also worked with composers such as Mathilde Wantenaar, Marion von Tilzer, Arthur Klaassens, Polina Medyulyanova and Rhiannon Randle.

The quartet has performed at festivals throughout Europe including: the String Quartet Biënnale Amsterdam; International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht; Zeistermuziekdagen; Wonderfeel; Trondheim Chamber Music Festival and Stift International Festival. Recent engagements have included performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Doelen in Rotterdam and Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht. The quartet regularly performs live on European radio stations such as NPO Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3 and their CD releases Ellipse (2022) and Parallel 40 (2024) with the Dutch label 7 Mountain Records received international acclaim. They are the recipients of several prizes, including receiving the Ensemble Of The Year 2022 award from Le Dimore del Quartetto.

The Belinfante Quartet studied at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Professor Oliver Wille, at NSKA in The Netherlands and they were a quartet in residence at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam Residency 2021 – 2022. The quartet has performed in masterclasses with Eberhard Feltz, Isabel Charisius and the Casals, Signum, Ebene and Danel Quartets.

Keywords

• 20Th Century Music
• Chamber Music
• Classical Music
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Contemporary Music
• Folk Music
• Interdisciplinary
• Music Teaching
• String Quartet
• Workshop
• World Music

Address

• Headquarters

  UtrechtUtrecht, Netherlands

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