Quartetto di Cremona

Sunday, March 14, 2027, 3:00 pm, Sleepy Hollow High School Auditorium, Sleepy Hollow, NY

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Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. The quartet is regularly invited to perform in major music festivals and halls in Europe, North and South America, as well as the Far East, receiving unanimous acclaim from the public and critics.

Quartetto di Cremona. Photo/Nikolaj Lund

Based in Genoa, Italy, the members are violinists Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli, violist Simone Gramaglia and cellist Giovanni Scaglione.

The quartet celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025 and is no stranger to the United States, completing a tour in that year of San Diego; Phoenix; Northampton, Mass.; New York and Gainesville, Fla. For that tour, they wrote, “we were joined by David Shifrin, one of America’s foremost clarinetists, with whom we delved into Brahms’s dense and dreamlike Clarinet Quintet.” A review of a performance at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Receital Hall noted: “An enthusiastic ovation was rewarded with an amazing encore: the incomparable First Counterpoint from Johann Sebastian Bach’s final work, ‘The Art of the Fugue.’” (FestivalTravelerNetwork.com)

They have recorded the complete Beethoven string quartets and their latest recording is “J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue,” performed with seven instruments so as not to alter the original writing of Bach’s score. Previous recordings include: “Italian Postcards” (2020, Avie Records); a double CD dedicated to Schubert (2019, Audite).

Frequently invited to present masterclasses in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the members of the quartet have been professors at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona since 2011. In 2019, the quartet was given the “Franco Buitoni Award” by the Borletti Buitoni Trust for their continuing contribution to the promotion of chamber music in Italy and around the world. They are ambassadors for the international project “Friends of Stradivari” and honorary citizens of Cremona, a title awarded to the quartet in 2015.

This concert is sponsored, in part, by the Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation.

Their Program will be:

  • Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No.1
  • Janacek: String Quartet No. 2  “Intimate Letters”
  • Grieg: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27
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