Quarto Quartet
Sofia Chamber Music Players
Ivan Penchev-violin
Darina Vasileva-piano
Tatyana Todorova-viola
Stoyan Bozhkov-cello
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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
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