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12th String Quartet Biennial
from 10 to January 18, 2026
All programming

L’Après-midi du Quatuor

Quatuors Akilone, Barbican, Fibonacci, Galilée, Hermès, Magenta
Chamber Music
Le Studio - Philharmonie
Duration: about 5h00 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

13h00 - 13h45 :
Dinuk Wijeratne
Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems
Raphaël Merlin
Œuvre nouvelle (création)
Grażyna Bacewicz
Quatuor à cordes n°1
Quatuor Magenta
Ida Derbesse , violin
Elena Watson-Perry , violin
Claire Pass-Lanneau , viola
Fiona Robson , cello
13h45 - 14h30 :
Helen Grime
Quatuor à cordes n°1
Béla Bartók
Quatuor à cordes n°5
Quatuor Fibonacci
Luna De Mol , violin
Kryštof Kohout , violin
Elliot Kempton , viola
Findlay Spence , cello
14h30 - 15h15 :
Ludwig van Beethoven
Quatuor à cordes n° 16 en fa majeur op. 135
Xu Yi
Cinq transformations
commande de ProQuartet, du Centre Présence Compositrices et du Quatuor Akilone
Quatuor Akilone
Magdalena Geka , violin
Elise De-Bendelac , violin
Perrine Guillemot , viola
Lucie Mercat , cello
Intermission
15h30 - 16h15 :
Franz Schubert
Quatuor à cordes n° 12 "Quartettsatz"
Ahmed Essyad
Dans l'ombre de l'abandon, pour soprano et quatuor à cordes (création)
Quatuor Galilée
Mostafa Saad , violin
Gandhi Saad , violin
Omar Saad , viola
Tibah Saad , cello
N N , soprano
16h15 - 17h00 :
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Quatuor à cordes n°2
Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber
« Onze heures et demie dans les herbes » - Quatuor à cordes n°3
Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz
Quatuor Hermès
Omer Bouchez , violin
Elise Liu , violin
Lou Yung-Hsin Chang , viola
Yan Levionnois , cello
17h00 - 17h45 :
Karol Szymanowski
Quatuor à cordes n°2
Rebecca Clarke
Poem
Joy Lisney
C'est l'extase
Quatuor Barbican
Amarins Wierdsma , violin
Kate Maloney , violin
Christoph Slenczka , viola
Yoanna Prodanova , cello

Adding to an already rich edition of the String Quartet Biennale, this special afternoon event—a marathon of promising ensembles from across the globe—showcases the rising stars of the global quartet scene.

Karina-Canellakis

Le Studio - Philharmonie

See the venue

Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris

To discover

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Quatuor Béla

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 6:30 pm
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Quatuor Isidore

Thursday, January 15, 2026 at 6:30 pm
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Quatuor Jérusalem

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 8:00 pm
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Concert de clôture

Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 6:00 pm
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