Modigliani Quartet and Pablo Barragán
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
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- Amaury Coeytaux Violin
- Loïc Rio Violin
- Laurent Marfaing Viola
- François Kieffer Cello
- Clarinet
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Modigliani Quartet
Founded in 2003, the Quatuor Modigliani is recognised as one of today’s most sought- after quartets, regularly performing in leading international concert series and on the world’s most prestigious stages.
Starting from the 2025/26 season, the Quatuor Modigliani will be the artist-in-resident at Radio France in Paris. As part of this residency, the quartet will give two string quartet concerts annually, as well as a chamber performance with guest musicians. The residency will culminate in the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Philippe Manoury.
Other highlights of the upcoming season include a North American tour in Autumn 2025, with performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. An extensive tour of Asia will follow, featuring concerts in South Korea, China, and Singapore. In Europe, the quartet will perform at major venues including the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, or the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In 2020, the quartet became artistic director of the string quartet festival “Vibre! Quatuors à Bordeaux” as well as the renowned “The Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.” The quartet is the founder and artistic director since 2011 of the Saint-Paul-de-Vence Festival. Since Autumn 2023, they have been mentors at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.
The Quatuor Modigliani has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 13 award-winning albums. In January 2024, the quartet’s latest album with string quartets by Grieg and Smetana was released and received enthusiastically by the international press: “The French Quatuor Modigliani brings these highly emotional works to life with energy, color and glowing passion.” (Rondo, January 2024). The recording was also featured in the bestseller list 2-2024 (category chamber music) at the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”. Since 2024, the Quatuor Modigliani is dedicating itself to the greatest challenge in the life of a string quartet: recording all 16 string quartets by Beethoven.
The Modigliani Quartet thanks the SPEDIDAM for its travel help during the US tours.
Thanks to the generosity and support of private sponsors, the Quatuor Modigliani plays on four outstanding Italian instruments:
Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1715 violin by Stradivari, Loïc Rio plays a 1780 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 viola by Luigi Mariani, François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller.“
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Pablo Barragán
Clarinet
The clarinettist, Pablo Barragán is recognized for his refined sound paired with a high skill of craftsmanship, stage charisma and boundless curiosity for the programming of his performances.
Pablo trained at the Seville Conservatory with Antonio Salguero and with Matthias Glander at the Fundación Barenboim-Said in Seville. He is the winner of the Prix Crédit Suisse Jeunes Solistes in 2013, amongst other competitions.
He has worked with orchestras such as the Brucknerhaus Orchestra Linz, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra with conductors such as Anja Bihlmaier, Thomas Dausgaard, Daniel Raiskin, and Zsolt Hamar.
Pablo is one of the most sought-after clarinetists and chamber music partners. He holds the honour of working regularly with wonderful musicians such as Elena Bashkirova, Beatrice Rana, Kian Soltani, Yuliana Avdeeva, Emmanuel Pahud, the Modigliani Quartet, the Sitkovetsky Trio, the Cremona Quartet and the Schumann Quartet. His chamber music invitations include performances at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Philharmonie Köln, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Rheingau Music Festival, Classiche Form, the Martha Argerich Festival, the Wigmore Hall London and the Tonhalle Zurich.
In the 2025/26 season, Pablo Barragán will perform several solo concerts with orchestra, opening the Cologne Chamber Orchestra's season under the direction of Christoph Poppen with two clarinet concertos: Hartmann's Chamber Concerto and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Further orchestral engagements will follow with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León under the direction of Vasily Petrenko, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava under the direction of Tania Miller, the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra Wrocław under the direction of Michael Collins, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in South America.
As a sought-after chamber musician, he will be performing with the Modigliani Quartet at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Alte Oper Frankfurt, as well as with the
Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble at the Stradivari Festival in Cremona and in Maribor. In connection with his latest recording ‘Balagan’, which is very popular among international music critics, he will be a guest at the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Lugano Arts Centre and the Wigmore Hall London together with Noa Wildschut and Amadeus Wiesensee.
Pablo's curiosity and creative spirit are also reflected in his two most recently released recordings, SZINERGIA and BALAGAN. BALAGAN, released in July 2024 on the Accentus label, focuses on works by 20th century Jewish composers including Paul Schoenfield, Ernest Bloch, Claude Vivier and Darius Milhaud. SZINERGIA, released in October 2024, presents Pablo's first recording with chamber orchestra, in this case the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. The recording centres on Hartmann's Chamber Concerto and exciting arrangements of Bartok's Romanian Dances, Weiner's Divertimento, Kodaly's Double Dance and Paco de Lucia's Callejon del Muro.
Since 2020 Pablo Barragán has been a Professor at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Seville and at masterclasses such as Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. He is also an artist of the Buffet Crampons clarinet manufacturer and plays an instrument of the RC Prestige model.
György Kurtág
12 Microludes for String Quartet op. 13, Hommage à Mihály András
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F major, Hob.III:82 (op. 77 no. 2)
— Intermission of 20 min. —Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
Total approximate duration: 1h 45 min.
Founded in 2003, the Modigliani Quartet is currently one of the world’s most admired string quartets and a benchmark in chamber music. The four French friends have explored the great pieces for string quartet, mesmerising with their interpretative excellence and the expressiveness extracted from each piece. For the performance of a Brahms quintet, they will be joined by Pablo Barragán, one of today’s great clarinetists.
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