This quartet from Barcelona has an exciting edge to their sound, which they will bring to masterpieces from three centuries. Vera Martinez Mehner, the powerhouse first violin, will have a big night. This Shostakovich is one of the most demanding and rewarding pieces for a quartet leader. And then she leads Beethoven's sacred "Holy Song of Thanks," the centerpiece of Beethoven's penultimate quartet. Haydn gets the first laugh with one of his brilliant, early quartets.

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Casals Quartet

Napa Methodist Church

Founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid, Cuarteto Casals is quartet in residence at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag and at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, where all four members reside.

Cuarteto Casals

California Institute of Technology

Since winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions, Cuarteto Casals, which was founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, has been a continual guest at the world’s most prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Cité de la Musique Paris, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Suntory Hall among many others. Cuarteto Casals is approaching its 25th anniversary season which it will celebrate with a recording and series of concerts featuring the complete ‘Art of the Fugue’ by Johann Sebastian Bach and highlights of recent seasons include a cycle of the complete late Mozart quartets at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, John Adams ‘Absolute Jest’ with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and tours throughout Europe and North America.


A prize from the prestigious Burletti-Buitoni Trust in London enabled the quartet to begin a collection of matching Baroque and Classical period bows which it uses for works from Purcell through Schubert, refining its ability to distinguish between diverse musical styles. In addition, the quartet has been profoundly influenced by its work with living composers, especially György Kurtág, and has given the world premiere of quartets written by leading Spanish composers, including a concerto for string quartet and orchestra by Francisco Coll, premiered with the Orquesta Nacional de España and commissions by Mauricio Sotelo, Benet Casablancas, Dahoud Salim, Lucio Amanti, Aureliano Cattaneo, and Matan Porat.

Sunset Center Theater

Tucson Convention Center

A Spanish string quartet that enjoys a truly international profile, Cuarteto Casals possesses “a sonic signature entirely its own” (New York Times). A regular guest at the world’s most prestigious concert venues, Cuarteto Casals brings its “fine-honed precision and passionate expressiveness” (The Independent) to Philadelphia for its Chamber Music Society debut.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Please Note: The planned February concert by Cuarteto Casals has been canceled, due to revised event guidance from Caltech, the university which hosts our concerts.</h4>
<del>Founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofi a in Madrid, <a>Cuarteto Casals</a> has been a repeat guest at the world’s most prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Cologne, Cité de la Musique Paris, Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, among many others around the world.</del>
<del>The members have recently added a highly praised recording of the Beethoven Quartets to their extensive discography on Harmonia Mundi. Gramophone Magazine, in reviewing the second volume of their Beethoven recordings, said “These interpretations don’t just strip off the varnish; they tear off the gilded frame, X-ray the canvas, and light it in neon.”

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