Missed Sarah Jo Kirsch's interview with Mr. Arditti? Watch it here.

Called 'The world's pre-eminent contemporary music quartet' by The Guardian, the Arditti Quartet are here for the 2015 Winnipeg New Music Festival.

The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Many hundreds of string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. Many of these works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history.

World premieres of quartets by composers such as Ades, Andriessen, Aperghis, Birtwistle, Britten, Cage, Carter, Denisov, Dillon, Dufourt, Dusapin, Fedele, Ferneyhough, Francesconi, Gubaidulina, Guerrero, Harvey, Hosokawa, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Maderna, Manoury, Nancarrow, Reynolds, Rihm, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen and Xenakis and hundreds more show the wide range of music in the Arditti Quartet's repertoire. The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to work with every composer it plays.


The players' commitment to educational work is indicated by their masterclasses and workshops for young performers and composers all over the world.

Irvine Arditti was Sarah Jo's guest live in The Diamond Lane. Watch it here!

 

 

For concert times and venue go to wnmf.ca