Tartini String Quartet

After 29 years of artistic activity (1983-2012), initially as the string quartet of the Slovenian Philharmonic, and from 1990 onwards performing under the name of Piran’s most famous violinist, the Tartini String Quartet has become renowned in Slovenia its interpretation of chamber music. The excellence of the Quartet’s performances is due to the individual qualities of its members. The Tartini String Quartet brings together superior musicians, acknowledged soloists and highly regarded professors who each devote their extensive technical knowledge and musical experience to the other distinguished members of the string quartet. In its many years of performing at concert venues, especially as part of the concert series from the cycle Evenings of Chamber Music, the Tartini String Quartet has managed to create a convincing and fresh approach to performance and bold programming. Within the mentioned cycle, over three years (2005-2007) the Quartet performed all the quartets of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.  It complements its “standard” concert programme with the creative opus of lesser-known composers, and performs string quartets by local composers of chamber music. With its excellent interpretations, it reveals the value and quality of Slovenian string quartets and through its superb performances encourages Slovenians to create new compositions for the string quartet as an artistic entity. The Tartini String Quartet also invites renowned Slovenian and foreign musicians as guests, thereby complementing and expanding its concert repertoire and, at the same time, proving to be a flexible and adaptable chamber ensemble. Thus, the Tartini String Quartet has performed with excellent musicians such as: Irena Grafenauer, Stanko Arnold, Radovan Vlatković, Gary Karr, Maria Graf, Franco Gulli, Mate Bekavac, Bruno Giuranna, Rocco Filippini, Giovanni Sollima, Gauthier Capuçon, Lovro Pogorelić, amongst many others. The Tartini String Quartet has proven its unique creativity with concerts at prestigious concert venues in Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Prague, Paris, Salzburg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Turin, Geneva, and elsewhere around the world. It has also made recordings for many radio and television stations in Slovenia and abroad. Without doubt, the Tartini String Quartet is a representative Slovenian chamber ensemble and an ambassador of Slovenian culture on both Slovenian and foreign concert stages. In 2001, in recognition of their artistic achievements members of the Tartini String Quartet received the Prešeren Fund Award; the highest national award for cultural achievement.

( updated april 2012 )