Violist

First Prize winners of the 219 Banff International String Quartet competition, the Viano Quartet will join the highly competitive Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Boston Globe praised them for their “virtuosity, visceral expression and rare unity of intention.”

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Viano Quartet

Rio Salado Park

The 2022-2023 season brings the Viano String Quartet on extensive tours throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States, with recital debuts in New York City, Hannover, Zurich, Budapest, Cologne, Heidelberg, Eisenstadt, San Diego, Denver, Calgary, Newport, and Philadelphia, among other cities. The quartet will also return to Southern Methodist University, where they are in residence through the 22/23 season.

Viano String Quartet

Soka Performing Arts Center

In addition to the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2019 ENKOR International Music Competition and second prize at the 2019 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition. At the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition they received Third Prize, the Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet, and the Sidney Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory work, Thomas Ades’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver Medal at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and Third Prize at the 2017 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.
Over the years, the quartet has collaborated with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Rodolfo Leone, Eliso Virsaladze, and Orion Weiss, and look forward to collaborations with Inon Barnatan, Michelle Cann, and Roberto Diaz in the upcoming season.

Paul Mahder Gallery

Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the semester, held on most Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings.

Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano

Curtis Institute of Music

Praised for their “huge range of dynamics, massive sound and spontaneity” (American Record Guide), the Viano String Quartet has received top prizes at several national and international competitions. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where they are Ensemble in Residence through the 2020-21 season, the quartet has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, SOKA Performing Arts Center, the Cerritos Center for Performing Arts; and with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Elisso Virsaladze, Paul Coletti, Martin Beaver and vocalist Hila Plitman.  The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all the strings working together as a string quartet, play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument, called the “Viano”.

Aiden Kane

Violist

Events

Oct 8, 2023

Viano Quartet · Hayden's Ferry Chamber Music Series

Nov 13, 2022

Viano String Quartet · Soka Performing Arts Center

Nov 11, 2022

Viano String Quartet · 222

Oct 21, 2022

Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano · Curtis Institute of Music

Feb 18, 2022

Viano Quartet · ArtPower at UC San Diego

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