Biography
Shortly after assembling, Italy's Quartetto Adorno appeared in leading international halls devoted to chamber music. The ensemble captured distinctions in prominent national contests. Its catalog spans from Haydn through twentieth-century and present-day compositions. Several releases have appeared, among them the complete string quartets of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco issued in 2024.
Violinist Edoardo Zosi and Liù Pelliciari, together with violist Benedetta Bucci and cellist Danilo Squitieri, established the group in 2015. The same four musicians have continued without alteration into the mid-2020s. The name pays tribute to philosopher Theodor Adorno, who viewed chamber music as an elevated form of cultural expression. Adorno also composed, and the quartet has performed his Sei studi of 1920. After advanced studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the players began accumulating competition successes. In 2016 they received the Zweite Wiener Schule Preis for the finest Second Viennese School interpretation at Austria's ISA Sommerakademie. At the 2017 Premio Paolo Borciano International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, they earned third place—no first prize having been given that year—plus a special award for contemporary performance and the Public Prize; the results constituted the strongest Italian showing in the competition's history. Further Italian honors followed, and in 2018 the quartet became associate artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, Belgium. Its debut recording, containing works by Zemlinsky and Brahms, was released on Decca the following year.
Appearances have accumulated at major chamber venues that include Wigmore Hall in London, the London Chamber Music Society Series at Kings Place, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and additional Italian sites. Festival engagements have included the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the Festival de Musique en Chalosse in France, and the Allegro Vivo Festival in Altenburg, Germany. An ongoing series of Beethoven quartet performances continues at various Italian locations. In 2024 the ensemble transferred to the Naxos label for its recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's complete quartets.
Violinist Edoardo Zosi and Liù Pelliciari, together with violist Benedetta Bucci and cellist Danilo Squitieri, established the group in 2015. The same four musicians have continued without alteration into the mid-2020s. The name pays tribute to philosopher Theodor Adorno, who viewed chamber music as an elevated form of cultural expression. Adorno also composed, and the quartet has performed his Sei studi of 1920. After advanced studies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the players began accumulating competition successes. In 2016 they received the Zweite Wiener Schule Preis for the finest Second Viennese School interpretation at Austria's ISA Sommerakademie. At the 2017 Premio Paolo Borciano International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, they earned third place—no first prize having been given that year—plus a special award for contemporary performance and the Public Prize; the results constituted the strongest Italian showing in the competition's history. Further Italian honors followed, and in 2018 the quartet became associate artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels, Belgium. Its debut recording, containing works by Zemlinsky and Brahms, was released on Decca the following year.
Appearances have accumulated at major chamber venues that include Wigmore Hall in London, the London Chamber Music Society Series at Kings Place, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and additional Italian sites. Festival engagements have included the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, the Festival de Musique en Chalosse in France, and the Allegro Vivo Festival in Altenburg, Germany. An ongoing series of Beethoven quartet performances continues at various Italian locations. In 2024 the ensemble transferred to the Naxos label for its recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's complete quartets.
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