Andrea Vio, violin
Alberto Battiston, violin
Luca Morassutti, viola
Angelo Zanin, cello
The Quartetto di Venezia was founded more than twenty years ago by four musicians with a common musical vision, and throughout its history these same artists have concentrated on the qualities of sonority, balance, and technique that give this ensemble its distinctively Italian charm and flair.
Their artistic conception derives from two important schools of string quartet interpretation. They studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena, where they were awarded the prestigious Diploma d’Onore, with Piero Farulli of the legendary Quartetto Italiano; and were equally influenced by the central European school of the renowned Vegh Quartet, through their work with Sandor Vegh and Paul Szabo.
In addition to annual appearances throughout Italy, the Quartetto di Venezia has toured extensively in Europe and the United States, and performed in Canada, Latin America, Japan and Korea. In the 2004-2005 season, the Quartetto appeared in Austria, France, Poland, Switzerland, Spain and Italy, made a 5-concert tour of Taiwan, a12-concert tour of South America, a 9-concert tour of North America that included performances in Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles, and at the Sanibel Festival in Florida, and returned for June concerts in Vancouver and at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The ensemble has had the honor of playing for the late Pope John Paul II, the President of the Italian Republic, and most recently in a private concert for the president of the European Union.
The Quartetto di Venezia has been broadcast on Italian State Television and on WQXR in New York, Radio Suisse Romande, South Korea Radio MBC, Bäyerischer Rundfunk, and in Austria on Schweizer Radio. Its extensive discography includes recordings for Dynamic, Koch, Ermitage, Hommage, Aura, Musical Heritage Society, Fonit Cetra, CD Classic and UNICEF. The Quartetto’s collaborations include Lukas Foss, Claus-Christian Schuster, Michele Campanella, Pietro de Maria, Paul Szabo, Alirio Diaz, Oscar Ghiglia, Emanuele Segre, Karl Leister, Leyla Gencer, Martin Hornstein, Danilo Rossi, and Alessandro Specchi.
The first violinist plays a 1740 Santo Serafino violin from the “Il Canale” Collection (Milan)
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