Cuarteto Quiroga

Aitor Hevia, violin

Cibran Sierra, violin

Josep Puchade, viola

Helena Poggio, cello

"...exquisite, precise, perfectly balanced, interpretively fresh, consistently couched in warm hues..."  The New York Times

The Quiroga String Quartet was founded with the advice and support of the late Charles-André Linale, and takes its name from the great Galician violinist Manuel Quiroga, who along with Pau Casals and Pablo Sarasate is one of the most important string players in the music history of Spain.  In 2011 the quartet commemorates the 50th anniversary of his death.

Since its founding, the quartet has studied with Professor Rainer Schmidt, first at Madrid's Escuela Reina Sofia and then at the Musikakademie of Basel, together with Prof. Walter Levin. Other important influences are András Keller, Johannes Meissl, Erich Höbarth, Günther Pichler, György Kurtág, Eberhard Feltz and Hatto Beyerle, with whom the quartet works today on a regular basis.

Top prize-winner of several major international string quartet competitions (Bordeaux, Paolo Borciani, Geneva, Paris, Barcelona), the quartet performs regularly in major halls and festivals of Europe and South-America (i.e Wigmore Hall London, Philarmonie Berlin, Les Invalides Paris, Concertgebouw Doelen Rotterdam, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Heidelberger Frühling, Quintessence Aachen, Kaisersaal Frankfurt, Davos Festival, Auditori de Barcelona, Teatro Solís Montevideo, Buenos Aires, etc.) and garners praise for its "readings full of freedom, freshness and vigor.. display a wide palette of original ideas"  Le Monde de la Musique. 

It made its North American debut at the Frick Collection in January 2012 which the NY Times covered (see above quote).

It  has recorded and been broadcast by RNE, SWR2, Swedish Radio, France Musique, WDR, MEZZO TV, etc. The Quartet was awarded the Spanish National Radio Culture Prize (Ojo Crítico) in 2007. The quartet collaborates with artists such as Vladimir Mendelssohn, Valentin Erben, Alain Meunier, Tobias Carron, Jeremy Menuhin, Javier Perianes, Chen Halevy, Claire Desert, David Kadouch, Alfredo Perl, the choreographer Hideto Hesiki, theater director Peter Ries or Spanish actor Jose Luis Gómez.

Currently it is the quartet-in-residence at the Fundación Museo Cerralbo in Madrid, teaches yearly at the International Summer Academy of Llanes (Asturias) and holds the string quartet faculty chair at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón, Zaragoza.

Cibràn Sierra, with the other members of the Quartet,  thanks  the heirs of  Paola Modiano for the generous opportunity to play, in her memory, the 1682 Nicolò Amati violin "Rosé".  
 

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