Quartetto Noûs | Hoylake Chamber Concert Society

About Quartetto Noûs | Hoylake Chamber Concert Society

Programme

Shostakovich –  String Quartet No 1 in C major, Op 49

Beethoven –  String Quartet No 11 in F minor, Op 95

Silvia Colasanti –  String Quartet Due Destini

Dvořák –  String Quartet No 10 in E-flat major, Op 51

 Biography

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Sofia Manvati – violin

Alberto Franchin – violin

Sara Dambruoso – viola

Riccardo Baldizzi – cello

Noûs (nùs) is a Greek word whose meaning is ‘mind’, and thence ‘rationality’, but also ‘inspiration’ and ‘creativity’.

Quartetto Noûs, formed in 2011, has established itself in a short time as one of the most interesting chamber music ensembles of its generation.  Its immersive performances are the result of a professional training where the Italian tradition and the most influential European schools are combined.

The quartet studied with the Quartetto di Cremona at the Accademia Walter Stauffer in Cremona, the Basel Musik Akademie with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), the Escuela Superior de Música ‘Reina Sofia’ in Madrid, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet), and at the Lübeck Musikhochschule with Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet).  In 2014 Quartetto Noûs was selected to take part in the project ‘Le Dimore del Quartetto’, thanks to which it won a scholarship. During the same year it was awarded another scholarship offered by the Foundatión Albeniz of Madrid and the following year they received the Piero Farulli Prize, given to the best emerging chamber music group of that year, and the Una Vita nella Musica 2015 Award at La Fenice Theatre, Venice, “…for establishing itself in just a few years as one of the most promising Italian chamber music groups and for displaying, early in its career, maturity of approach to the great string quartet literature; for seeking a reasoned and lasting interpretation of the masterpieces of the Classical-Romantic period and of the twentieth century, together with a determined and ongoing exploration of the contemporary music language.”  The versatility and the interpretative originality of the ensemble can be heard in the quartet’s whole repertoire.

It has worked with several contemporary composers and taken part in many crossover projects with theatre and dance companies.  The Quartetto Noûs has collaborated with renowned artists such Tommaso Lonquich, Andrea Lucchesini, Alain Meunier, Giovanni Scaglione, Sonig Tchakerian, Bruno Canino, Boris Petrushansky, Alessandro Taverna, Gloria Campaner, and Enrico Bronzi.

In Italy the Quartetto Noûs performs regularly for renowned concerts societies and festivals: Società del Quartetto Milan, Unione Musicale Turin, Amici della Musica Florence, Bologna Festival and Musica Insieme Bologna, Società del Quartetto Bergamo, Società Veneziana dei Concerti, Associazione Chamber Music Trieste, Associazione Musicale Lucchese, Associazione Scarlatti Naples, I Concerti del Quirinale Rome, Stradivari Festival Cremona, Ravenna Festival and Settimane Musicali Stresa.

Further afield the quartet is regularly invited to perform in Germany, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, Canada, United States, Brazil, South Korea and China.  Its performances have been broadcasted on several radio stations such as Venice Classic Radio, Radio Clásica, RSI and Radio 3.  From 2013 to 2017 the quartet held a residency at Festival Ticino Musica in Lugano.  The Quartetto Noûs has recorded for labels such as Brilliant Classics, Tactus, DaVinci Edition and Warner Classics.

In 2021 the quartet started to record the complete Shostakovic’s String Quartets cycle for the Brilliant Classics label.  The first volume was published in 2022 and the second in 2023.

The Venue

OUR CONCERTS ARE HELD IN ST HILDEBURGH’S CHURCH, HOYLAKE, CH47 1HL

The venue is five minutes’ walk from Hoylake railway station on the Wirral Line and fifteen minutes from the motorway network.

TO HOYLAKE BY RAIL FROM LIVERPOOL

1. Arriving at Liverpool Lime Street mainline station, cross the concourse and descend to the Merseyrail Underground station. Trains are bound for several termini which are shown on the front of each train, and on electronic displays on the platform. Take the train for West Kirby.

2. Alight at Hoylake station (the penultimate stop on the line).

3. Cross the footbridge and continue straight ahead to a roundabout with a bird sculpture in its centre.

4. Cross the road and continue in the same direction along The King’s Gap.

5. After 200 metres at a crossroads, The Green Lodge Hotel is opposite you and St Hildeburgh’s church is on your left.

TO HOYLAKE BY ROAD

Corner of Stanley Road and King’s Gap, Hoylake CH47 1HL

1. Leave the M53 motorway at Junction 2

2. Continue to the end of the spur road, then take the second exit off the roundabout and follow the signs for Moreton & Hoylake.

3. At the end of the road take the first exit off the roundabout for Hoylake A553.

4. Stay on the A553 through Moreton, Meols and then into Hoylake.

5. In Hoylake you will reach a roundabout with a bird sculpture in its centre. Turn right on the roundabout.

6. After 200 metres you reach a crossroads with St Hildeburgh’s church on your left. Turn left here.

7. There is disabled parking available in the church car park and plenty of on road parking.