The Molinari Quartet is very honored to have won a 21st Opus Prize at the Quebec Music Council’s Opus Prize Gala on Sunday February 7, 2021. This year’s Gala was special edition broadcast live on the web because of the pandemic. The Quartet was given the Opus Prize in the category Album of the Year …
This site is intended to be a place of discovery and a source of information on works for string quartets by Quebec composers. In the months and years ahead, recordings will be added regularly to make this site a lively and vibrant venue. www.vqqm.ca
Last week, the musicians of the Molinari Quartet spent three days at St-Augustin de Mirabel church to record the first four quartets by American minimalist composer Philip Glass. This is the first of a set of recordings to be made of the complete string quartes by Glass for the ATMA Classique record label. Sound engineer …
The Molinari Quartet announces its 8th International composition competition. Composers of 40 years of less are invited to submit an original work for string quartet. The four winners will receive prizes totaling 6000$ and will have their work premiered in a concert by the Molinari Quartet during their 2021-2022 season in Montreal. For complete details …
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The Molinari Quartet is creating a unique video library of qQuebec string quartets that will be put on line on this web site. For the Quartet, it is important that works be known and become part of the repertoire and therefore this new video library will enable new works played and premiered by the Molinari …
After four and a half months without concerts, the Molinari Quartet is back on stage! With its new concert series entitled “Intimate concerts” performed at the Molinari Foundation, the Quartet can now reconnect with its public while respecting the government’s sanitary norms. The first programme of the series was held on Sunday August 2nd in …
It is with great sadness, that the Molinari Quartet must put to a halt its 2019-2020 concert season. The COVID-19 pandemic has obliged our governments to take measures to secure the population, and therefore we must stay in confinement for the health and safety of all. We will announce in the upcoming weeks our 2020-2021 …
The Molinari Quartet’s latest CD, the complete string quartets by Polish composer Henryk Górecki was released on March 20. The minimalist music of Górecki is at times very soothing and at times full of vitality. This easy listening CD will accompany you in many activities. For example, the 56 minutes long Third Quartet is very …
It is with regret that we must postpone our annuel benefit event which was to take place on May 5th.This pandemic has already dramatic effects on many musicians and artistic companies like ours who have their concerts and events cancelled or postponed. In these difficult times were we need as never before your support, we …
The Molinari Quartet is proud to collaborate with the renowned dance company Virginie Brunelle. The musicians will accompany seven dancers in the work Les corps avalés, Les corps avalés explores power relations, inequalities and social upheaval against a backdrop of resilience and hope. Mastering the delicate balance between expressiveness and vigorous physicality, Brunelle directs the …