Praised by Le Progrès (France) for its “Stunning technical expertise, outstanding ensemble and a particularly accomplished musical identity,” the MODIGLIANI STRING QUARTET makes encore appearances in the Young Concert Artists Series during the 2007-2008 season, appearing at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and the University of Maryland with pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, a fellow YCA artist.  They also appear extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada, including performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Brownville Concert Series (NE), Princeton University, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (IL) and the Vancouver Recital Society.

The Quartet won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and the 2005 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Paris.  They were also awarded the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, which sponsored their New York debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, which sponsored their Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, the Gulbenkian Foundation Concert Prize for a concert in Paris, the Vancouver Recital Society Prize, the Princeton University Concerts Prize, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Prize, and the Sander Buchman Memorial Prize.

The Quartet has performed at renowned festivals and concert venues in Europe including the City of London Festival, Folle Journée (Nantes), Festival de l’Epau, Festival de Deauville, Festival du Périgord Vert, Festival du Périgord Noir, Théâtre de la Ville-Abbesses, and Théâtre Mogador in France, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Nederlands String Quartet Festival, and the Eindhoven Frits Philips Music Center in the Netherlands, the Festival Musika-Música in Bilbao, Spain, and the Cambridge Summer Music Festival in the U.K.  They have collaborated with many well-known artists, such as pianists Jean-François Heisser, Vanessa Wagner, Michel Dalberto, Bruno Canino, Jean-Marc Luisada, Abdel Rahman El Bacha and Alain Planès; cellists Gary Hoffman, Roland Pidoux, and Philippe Muller; and clarinetists Michel Portal and Karl-Heinz Steffens.  In 2006 the NASCOR label released the Quartet’s first CD, which includes works by Schumann, Hugo Wolf, and Mendelssohn.

At the 2004 TROMP International String Quartet Competition in the Netherlands, its first international competition, the Quartet was awarded First Prize, the Audience Prize, the Young Jury’s Prize and the Willem Vos Prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work.  The Modigliani String Quartet was also awarded First Prize in the Vittorio E. Rimbotti Competition in Italy, and has received grants from the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire and SPEDIDAM.

The Modigliani String Quartet was formed in 2003 by four young musicians studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.  After studying there with the Ysaÿe Quartet, they were invited by the Artemis Quartet to work with them at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.  Cellist François Kieffer plays a cello by Grancino, dated 1700, on loan from Geoffrey Simon, Artistic Director of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

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