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AGATE QUARTET 19:00Debussy

PIATTI QUARTET 20:00MendelssohnHAROLD QUARTETMegumi Okuda (student of the Conservatoire)

ELMIRE QUARTET 21:00Bartók

KUSS QUARTET 22:00Beethoven, Reimann

AROD QUARTET 23:00Zemlinsky

YAKO QUARTET MidnightLigeti, Tom Bierton (student of the Conservatoire)

MONA QUARTET 1:00Dvořák

CHENG QUARTET 2:00Bartók, Filippos Sakagian (student of the Conservatoire)

MAURICE QUARTET 3:00Scelsi, Xenakis

TCHALIK QUARTET 4:00Boisgallais, Beethoven

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No reservations, places are limited. Tickets will be distributed at the venue (100 places per concert). Unclaimed places will be redistributed 10 minutes before the concert. There will be no museum access.

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For this 4th edition, the Nuit du Quatuor® (Quartet Night) finds itself once again in the mythical Water Lilies exhibit space, committing itself to the Musée de l’Orangerie’s new ambitions for Nuit Blanche.

Once more, the best international ensembles such as the Agate, Piatti, Harold, Elmire, Kuss, Arod, Yako, Mona, Cheng, Maurice, and also Tchalik Quartets will perform master works from today’s and yesterday’s repertoire.

Passing along the passion of string quartet playing is the spirit of the Nuit du Quatuor. 3 new works composed during the ProQuartet composition workshop at the Paris Conservatory will enrich the repertoire.

We wish you a new and unforgettable Nuit du Quatuor®.

Pierre KorziliusDirector

ProQuartet

Cécile DebrayDirector Musée de l’Orangerie

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Claude DebussyString quartet in G minor, op. 10 (1893)

At 30 years old, Debussy composed what remains his only quartet, around the same time as work was underway for his Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune. The link between these two works is quite significant. Even though the Faune had such a promising future, this quartet seemed to be a heavy artifact of the recent past.

It is a first work of true artistic maturity and at the same time one that Debussy saw as a demonstration of the strength of his technique (…) It was received somewhat coldly. Critics were troubled by its novel harmonies and tones. - The always clairvoyant Paul Dukas was among the few to fully appreciate the qualities of the work.

Musicians sharing an enthusiasm for bold, alternative, even underground projects and in 2016, decided to set up the Agate Quartet to explore together their musical passions. Their encounter with the string quartet repertoire is a decisive turning point in the life of the four musicians. Since 2018, The Agate Quartet is in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and has been selected for taking part in the « Le Dimore del Quartetto » project. The Agate Quartet is a ProQuartet resident since february 2019.

Agate Quartet Adrien JurkovicThomas Descamps

Raphaël PagnonSimon Iachemet

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Piatti Quartet Nathaniel Anderson-Frank Michael Trainor

Tetsuumi NagataJessie Ann Richardson

Felix Mendelssohn-BartholdyString quartet n° 6 in F minor, op. 80 (1847)

Mendelssohn composed this quartet in the wake of the recent death of his sister Fanny, only four years his senior. The two had a profound bond. The young lady also showed great musical talent, but was not allowed to flourish to her liking.

The String Quartet in F minor, also known as Requiem for Fanny also expresses the suffering of a man at the end of his life. Mendelssohn died in 1847, two months after completing this final quartet. He left one last tempestuous work, marked by darkness from start to finish. Even its writing was more unstable than his other scores, showing a aesthetic change compared to those of his youth.

The Piatti Quartet is one of the most distinguished quartets of their generation. Prizewinners at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they have performed in all the major venues and festivals around the U.K., and given concerts throughout the world. They are renowned for their passionate interpretations across the spectrum of quartet writing, expanding the quartet genre through their collaborations with leading British composers. The Piatti Quartet is a coach chamber music at the Purcell School, Trinity Laban Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music

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Megumi Okuda (student of the Conservatoire)Pièce nouvelle (world premiere, 2019)

The Harold Quartet was born from the common will of four young musicians to venture into the vast string quartet repertoire. Professionally trained at schools across Europe, the Quartet members now bring their passion for chamber music to Paris, in the company of the Manfred Quartet, especially Emmanuel Haratyk (violist). Parallèlement aux concerts qu’ils donnent et soucieux de transmettre au plus grand nombre, il leur tient à cœur d’organiser des interventions en milieu scolaire and outreach activities.

Harold Quartet Clara BourdeixArnaud Faggianelli

Amélie LeducEmilie Coraboeuf

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Béla BartókString quartet n°2, op. 17 (1917)

Developed by the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet, to which it was dedicated on March 3, 1918, the Second Quartet had a long gestation period, from 1915 to 1917. During the ten years or so that separated it from the First Quartet, the language of Bartók gained considerable maturity with the chefs-d’oeuvre that punctuated this period, for example, The Château de Barbe-Bleue and The Prince de bois, based on librettos by his friend Béla Balázs, and especially the Suite op.14 pour piano, marked by his discovery of Arabic popular music during his trip to Algeria in 1913. The other common point between these scores and the Second Quartet resides in the adoption of a slow movement in the finale, a formal hallmark of this time period.

Founded in 2016, the Elmire Quartet won the same year the Second Prize at the FNAPEC European Contest in Paris. In 2018, it was awarded the Second and Special Prizes “Adolfo Betti” for the best String Quartet in the Concorso di Musica da Camera Virtuoso & Belcanto Premio « Luigi Boccherini » in Lucca (Italy). The Quartet played in many festivals and concerts in France and abroad. In 2018, the Quartet participates to the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy.The same year, the Quartet joined the « Le Dimore Del Quartetto » project and became ProQuartet resident.

Elmire Quartet Cyprien BrodKhoa-Nam Nguyen

Issey NadaudRémi Carlon

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Kuss Quartet Jana KussOliver Wille

William ColemanMikayel Hakhnazaryan

Ludwig van BeethovenString quartet n°16 in F major, op. 135 (1826)

The String Quartet op. 131 was barely completed before Beethoven had to face one of the most devastating family dramas of his life, the attempted suicide of his nephew Karl, on July 30, 1826 [...] Opus 135 was completed with Karl close by in mid-October. The work hardly seems to show the traces of that dramatic summer.

Aribert Reimann7 Bagatellen (2017)

To accompany the 6 Lieders for Soprano and String Quartets by Theodor Kirchner, Aribert Reimann composed these 7 bagatelles that could be played by the quartets only between songs, forming a separate but whole quartet.

The trademark of the Kuss Quartet is their concept-based programming. With common themes running throughout their programmes, they offer unique experiences to accustomed audiences and new listeners alike. Thanks to a grant from the state of Lower Saxony and Musik 21, the quartet was able to commission four new works for string quartet from Enno Poppe, Aribert Reimann, Manfred Trojahn and Bruno Mantovani. The ensemble is currently working on a complete Beethoven quartet cycle, which they will perform in chronological order in the Suntory Hall in Japan.

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Alexander von Zemlinsky String quartet in D minor n°2, op. 15 (1914)

As a Post-Romantic Austrian composer, Zemlinsky was a contemporary of Mahler and Richard Strauss, with Schoenberg as one of his pupils. During WWII, he fled to the United States and his music was slowly forgotten. There is a renewed interest in his music today, which has entered the repertoire of several ensembles. […] Zemlinsky has, in aesthetic terms, often been compared to Schoenberg, another Viennese composer who eventually became his brother-in-law. [...] Zemlinsky quotes two measures of Schoenberg’s La Nuit transfigurée in the slow movement of the piece, yet the score is aesthetically closer to Mahler, as evidenced in particular by the dark, macabre atmosphere of Adagio.

Founded in 2013, the Arod Quartet won the First Prize at the ARD International Music Competition of Munich in 2016.In 2017, they were named « BBC New Generation Artist » for the seasons 2017 to 2019, and ECHO Rising Star for the season 2018-2019. The Quatuor Arod records for the Erato Warner Classicslabel. Its first Mendelssohn album came out in autumn 2017. The Quatuor Arod is in residency at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and at ProQuartet. It is an HSBC award-winner from the Académie du Festival d’Aix, and the Fondations Banque Populaire and Safran.

Arod Quartet Jordan VictoriaAlexandre Vu

Tanguy ParisotSamy Rachid

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Yako Quartet Ludovic ThillyPierre Maestra

Vincent VerhoevenAlban Lebrun

György Ligeti String quartet n° 1 « Métamorphoses nocturnes » (1954)

Cut off from the cultural and artistic realities of Western Europe, Ligeti pursued an idealistic modernity based on the Bartokian model. His personality is evident through the systematic search for contrast (…) Bartok searched for unity and symmetry. Ligeti sought variety and asymmetry.

Tom Bierton (student of the Conservatoire)StutterShunt (world premiere,2019)- BégayerDétourner

A grotesque and amusing piece, woven mainly from the grating and bouncing of bows on muted or detuned strings with an underlying question: How can the strength of one’s intentions be convincing when they cannot be pronounced intelligibly ?

The Yako Quartet shakes up the codes by giving up nothing to the tradition of excellence inherent to the repertoire it defends. Noticed at the « Musiques d’Ensemble » contest of the FNAPEC in March 2016, it becomes the same year resident ProQuartet and gets the third prize at the International Orlando competition in the Netherlands. Guest of the French radio station France Musique, The Yako Quartet performs in Hungary, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and debuts on BR-Klassik radio and in the Louvre Museum’s auditorium.

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Antonín DvořákString quartet n° 12 in F major, op. 96 « American » (1893)

The most famous of the Czech composer’s chamber scores was written in sixteen days (June 8-23, 1893) in Spilville, a small town in Iowa. The head of the St. Wenceslas Church choir, the local parish, was none other than the father of Josef Kovarik, a young Czech violinist whom Dvořák had brought along as a secretary and assistant. Thanks to this stay with Czech immigrants, the composer was able to rediscover his bohemian roots while encountering African American music of prayer, celebration and mourning. The Quartet was composed together with the B 180 String Quintet, and bares some similarities to the 9th Symphony, The New World Symphony.

Founded in January 2018 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, the Mona Quartet represents the unity of four vibrant musical personalities. At only the beginning of their career they have already garnered prizes such as Le Prix del’Orangerie de Sceaux as well as the Prix du Méjan from their time at the Académie Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The pianist and composer Abdel Rahman El Bacha dedicated his piece “Prélude à cordes” to the young quartet. Since 2018, the quartet is in residence at the Foundation Villa Musica in Germany and become ProQuartet Resident in 2019.

Mona Quartet Verena ChenRoxana Rastegar

Arianna SmithCaroline Sypniewski

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Cheng Quartet Hui-Wen ChengWan-Ru ChengShih-Hsien Tsai

Sheng-Chiun Lin

Filippos Sakagian (student of the Conservatoire)3MÉGISTE (world premiere,2019)

This piece is based on a book about Hermes Trismegistus, founder of Hermeticism. It deals with matter and the inaccessible by means of philosophical and alchemical principles. This reading left me with morphological and temporal «acoustic traces» that I try to give life to.

Béla BartókString quartet n°3 in C sharp minor (1927)

The Third Quartet was developed in London by the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet and given a second performance in Frankfurt by the Kolisch Quartet, which contributed greatly to the notoriety of Viennese composers other than Bartók.

Folk taiwanese song

The Cheng Quartet was formed in 2015 and is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All the four members were originally from Taiwan, and have received their master degree from cooperation between the Netherlands String Quartet Academy (NSKA) and Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) in 2018. The Quartet participates to ProQuartet training program and is named in 2017 the new fellowship quartet-in-residence at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy and takes part in Le Dimore del Quartetto project in Italy in 2018.

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Iannis Xenakis « Tetras » (1983)

Tetras, meaning « four » combines many of the constant and transformative methods that find their way into Xenakis’ body of work, which makes up roughly eighty pieces.

Giacinto ScelsiString quartet n°4 (1964)

Five string quartets occupy a central place in Scelsi’s work. Forty years separate the First from the Fifth, the latter being the last work of his life. [...] The Fourth Quartet remains the most extraordinary proof of Scelsi’s creative phase. It seems like more of an orchestral composition for 16 strings rather than a quartet, where each string is treated as an instrument in its own right, with its own color.

Winner of the XXXV Music Critics Award Franco Abbiati in 2015, and of the Stipendium as Best Interpreters’ Award at Ferienkurse fur Neye Musik in Darmstadt in 2016, the Maurice Quartet focuses its artistic experience on 20th century and contemporary music. The Quartet has performed throughout Italy and abroad, in a number of prestigious venues as Biennale di Venezia, «Encontres de Compositores» de Majorca, ManiFeste in Paris, etc.

Maurice Quartet Georgia PriviteraLaura Bertolino

Francesco VerneroAline Privitera

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Tchalik Quartet Gabriel TchalikLouise TchalikSarah TchalikMarc Tchalik

Jacques BoisgallaisString quartet (2019, co-commission ProQuartet and Radio France)

« We asked Jacques Boisgallais to compose a work based on a Schubertian theme of his choice, that could resonate with a Schubert quartet. We’ve known Jacques Boisgallais for a long time and are quite taken with his work. » - Gabriel Tchalik

Ludwig van BeethovenGreat Fugue in B flat major op.133 (1825)

Dedicated to the Archduke Rudolf of Austria, the Grande Fugue was executed to serve as the crowning giant of the 13th Quartet. Whether played as the finale of the quartet or performed separately, this piece is (...) one of the great «monsters» of Beethoven’s quartet literature.

The Tchalik Quartet has the peculiarity of being composed of four brothers and sisters. In February 2018, the Tchalik Quartet brilliantly came away with 1st Prize and a Special Prize for the best interpretation of a Mozart quartet at the International Mozart Competition 2018 in Salzburg. They are laureate of the Tremplin de la Philharmonie de Paris, and are supported by the Safran Foundation. By the end of 2017, the Quartet had become designated residents of ProQuartet and was selected by Simone Gramaglia (Quartetto di Cremona) to take part in the Le Dimore del Quartetto project in Italy.

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Since 2015, the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris and ProQuartet have run a unique program for to help young chamber players and composers to start a professional career.

Each year, 3 or 4 students from the composition class work closely to premier a string quartet with one of ProQuartet’s young professional ensembles. Coached by their professors of composition, the ensembles and composers also benefit from the advice of Emmanuel Haratyk, violist of the Manfred Quartet.

For the first time, the new pieces from this unique project will be premiered at the prestigious Nuit du Quatuor® in the Musée de l’Orangerie.

Premieres 3 new compositionsin partnership with the

Conservatoire de Paris

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Public Masterclass In conjunction with the Nuit du Trio and the ProQuartet training program, the Wanderer Trio will give a public masterclass at the Philharmonie de Paris.Free entry

Le Studio, Philharmonie de ParisFriday October 4 at 19:00

Nuit du TrioTrios also have their night at the Philharmonie de Paris. Among them you’ll find ProQuartet residents: the Zadig Trios, Metral et Sōra, and also the famous Wanderer Trio.A co-production of ProQuartet and the Philharmonie de Paris

Philharmonie de ParisFrom 21:00 to 05:00

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Amateur Music Night

Once again this year, the Nuit du Quatuor is expanding. ProQuartet and La Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs (MPAA) teamed up to ask amateur musicians to come share their passion for music.Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs / La CanopéeFrom 19:00 to 04:00

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In parallel with the Nuit du Quatuor

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ProQuartet - Centre européen de musique de chambre

Projet OffenbachSaturday, November 16 – 20:00Théâtre Louis-Philippe, Château de Compiègne

To celebrate the Jacques Offenbach bicentennial, ProQuartet and the CNSMD of Paris (vocal and writing departments) team up for a project involving ProQuartet residents the Elmire Quartet with other performers for a look at one of the most beautiful one-act lyric pages of the composer, Un Mari à la Porte.

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Musée de l’Orangerie

Coming Exhibitions

Félix Fénéon (1861-1944). The modern times, from Seurat to MatisseBetween artistic engagement and anarchic convictions. From October 16, 2019 to January 27, 2020

Patrick Tosani, Reflection and transfixion.Cuillères, a series of photographs from 1988.From October 16, 2019 to February 17, 2020

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Events to Come

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Directeur de la publication : Pierre KorziliusGraphisme et coordination éditoriale : Pauline Gontier

Impression : Burlet GraphicsTraduction : Stephen Armstrong, ProQuartet

Photos couverture : Musée de l’Orangerie, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Sophie Crépy - Opale Productions / Quentin Woloch

Photos : Neda Navaee, Victor Erik Emanuel, DR, Bernard Martinez, Rüdiger Schestag, Marco Borggreve, Bernard Martinez, Verena Chen, DR, Deny, Julien Daniel

Notes de programmes : Fr.-R. Tranchefort, Elsa Fottorino, nn, Fr.-R. Tranchefort, Bernard Fournier, nn, Elsa Fottorino, Philharmonie de Paris, nn, Fr.-R. Tranchefort, nn, Fr.-R.

Tranchefort, nn, Suzanne Giraud, Harry Halbreich, Gabriel Tchalik, Fr.-R. Tranchefort

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Musée de l’Orangerie Jardin de Tuileries - Place de la Concorde, Paris 1

Métro : 1, 12, 8 Station Concorde (ligne 1

ouverte toute la nuit)

Bus : 42, 45, 52, 72, 73, 84, 94, arrêt Concorde

Station Vélib Cambon / Assemblée nationale

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Avec le généreux soutien de Besserat de Bellefon

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