Music Toronto | Quatuor Van Kuijk

Style, energy, and a sense of risk. These four young Frenchman made the music smile. The Guardian

Since their formation in 2012, Quatuor Van Kuijk has collected accolades: First, Best Beethoven and Best Haydn Prizes at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet competition, First Prize and an Audience Award at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, as well as becoming laureates of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy. Plus, they joined the ECHO Rising Stars roster for the 2017/2018 season. Currently BBC New Generation Artists, the Van Kuijk Quartet is in residence at ProQuartet, Paris, where they study with members of the Alban Berg, Artemis and Hagen quartets.

Haydn, Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
Ligeti, Quartet No. 1, “Métamorphoses nocturnes”
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Schubert, Quartet No. 14 in D Minor,  “Death and the Maiden.”
 

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