Quarto Quartet 17 December 2013

Quarto Quartet play Beethoven & Schubert / 17 December 2013 at Bulgaria Hall
A concert dedicated to our professor Dimitar Kozev

Beethoven – String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4 in C minor(1798–1800)
Schubert – String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, known as „Death and the Maiden“ (The quartet was first played in 1826 in a private home, and was not published until 1831, three years after Schubert’s death.)

Quarto Quartet:
Ivan Penchev – violin, Svetlana Stancheva – violin, Tatyana Todorova – viola and Dimitar Tenchev – cello
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• Tickets are avaible in The Box Office at Bulgaria Hall and here: http://ticketplus.bg/arrivalorder.php?eid=1985&aid=71&vid=4

Quarto Classical Music TV

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Quarto Quartet on the concert in Bulgaria Hall, April 2010

Quarto in Dobrich, May 12 2009

One, Тwo, Тhree…“Quarto“!!!

May 12, 2009 in Dobrich

"Quarto" Chamber Music Players

Quarto – The chamber music players of Sofia.

The Quarto’s concert in Dobrich (Bulgaria) on the closing of Chamber Music Festival (May 12).

Program:

Mozart’s Fantasia in d moll – prof.Dimo Dimov (piano);
Beethoven’s Sonata No.1 for violin and piano – Ivan Penchev (violin) and Dimo Dimov (piano);
Schubert’s Nocturne – Ivan Penchev (violin), Stoyan Bozhkov (cello) and Dimo Dimov (piano);
Mahler’s Piano Quartet – Quarto Quartet (Ivan Penchev, Tatyana Todorova, Stoyan Bozhkov and Darina Vassileva);
Pipkov’s Piano Quartet – Quarto Quartet (Ivan Penchev, Tatyana Todorova, Stoyan Bozhkov and Darina Vassileva).

Quarto Quartet in Bulgaria Hall, 30 April 2009

Quarto–The Chamber Music Players of Sofia

Ivan Penchev – violin
Svetlana Stancheva – violin
Tatyana Todorova – viola
Stoyan Bozhkov – cello
Darina Vasileva – piano
Silvet Salieva – double bass

• Bedrich Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor „From My Life“ The composition of the first string quartet From My Life was preceded by a period of fateful changes in Smetana’s life। In 1874 he lost his hearing। Two years later he moved with his family to Jabkenice in the countryside, which seemed to him like an expulsion; he suffered from his deafness and missed contact with like-minded company. He presented the string quartet as a conversation within a close circle of four friends who discuss what is tormenting them. It is a kind of passionate and resigned dialogue between a spirited person and his destiny.
• Franz Schubert ‘Trout’ Quintet in A major for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano, D667,  composed in summer 1819 during an excursion to Upper Austria. The title is so called because the fourth of the five movements is a set of variations on his song The Trout/Die Forelle, D550, (1817).

Tickets are available on +359 2 951 5571, www.ticketstream.bg, quartoquartet@gmail.com and at the box office of Bulgaria Hall

About Quarto Quartet

Quarto Quartet

Sofia Chamber Music Players

Ivan Penchev-violin

Darina Vasileva-piano

Tatyana Todorova-viola

Stoyan Bozhkov-cello

&

Silvet Salieva – double bass, Atanas Iliev – clarinet,

Pavel Rusev – cello and Svetlana Stancheva – violin

The Quartet „Quarto“ was founded more than 3 years ago in Sofia, Bulgaria, as not only a piano quartet, but also as a flexible chamber ensemble with varying configurations, such as duos, trios, as a string quartet and as a quintet with piano, double bass or clarinet.

They present frequent concerts in Sofia and many other cities in Bulgaria (Sofia, Ruse, Stara Zagora, Varna, Dobrich) as well as in Italy, Germany and Austria.

Bulgarian and foreign musicians alike testify to the high level of these young musicians, as exemplified by their performances at and prizes from competitions such as the „250 Mozart Anniversary“ -Sofia, 2006, ”Brahms Competition”-Austria,2006, Competition “Austrian music” -Sofia, 2008, „Goleminov Competition“ – Sofia 2008 and others.

Frequent guests artists appearing with Quartet „Quarto“ are Bulgarian pianists Dimo Dimov and Bogdan Stanev, cellist John Koen (Philadelphia, USA) and violist Avri Levitan (Israel).

The quartet and its guests have premièred numerous contemporary works by Bulgarian and foreign composers such as Georgi Arnaudov and Tsenko Minkin, Lubo Denev and Vasil Kazandjiev, Tom Knific, Dimitar Ninov and others.

Their current repertoire includes trios, quartets and quintets for piano and strings by Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Robert Fuchs, Frank Bridge, Dvořák, Mahler, Mozart, Schumann, Bartok, Marin Goleminov and others.

Quartet Quarto

1000 Sofia; Bulgaria

Rakovski str. 82

Ivan Penchev