Quartetto Maurice

Biography

The Maurice Quartet was founded in 2002 in Pinerolo (TO). Its members studied and graduated brilliantly in 2009 at the Special Quartet Course of the School of Music of Fiesole and the prestigious Academy of the Quartet (ECMA project), followed by work with the most important masters of chamber music: H. Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), G. and M. Kurtag, A. Keller (Keller Quartet), P. Cropper (Lindsay Quartet), P. Farulli (Italian Quartet), V. Mendellssohn (Enesco Quartet), A. Nannoni, in Paris with C. Giovaninetti (Ysaye Quartet), and also Roham de Saram (Arditti Quartet) and Francesco Dillon (Prometheus Quartet).
The four performers, from the beginning of their career, have shown the need to focus on music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in addition to the usual classic works. They reach their expressive height in contemporary music. The Quartet have played the world premiers of the works of Marco Momi, Odd Sneggen and the South Americans Maglia, Valverde, and De Zarate. They performed the Italian premiere of the music of Ryan Carter, Mayke Nas and Guido Baggiani. The Florentine composer Andrea Portera dedicated his first string quartet Transform to the Quartetto Maurice. The piece won several specialized competitions.
The Quartet has performed at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, at the Teatro Civico in Tortona, at the Atelier Giovani at the Teatro Vittoria in Turin, the Villa Romana in Florence, the Highscore Festival in Pavia at the Gubbio Music Festival and the International Festival of Imola.
The Quartetto Maurice has collaborated with the School of Fiesole in the Laborintus Ensemble under the direction of Renato Rivolta with music by Matteo Franceschini and as a quintet with pianist Alberto Carnevale Ricci and Leonardo Zunica.