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«Depuis la disparition de leurs illustres aînés du ‘Quartetto Italiano’, on avait rarement entendu une telle sensibilité et telle sincérité» François Clairant, "Sud-Ouest"Winner of the 50th «Prague Spring International Music Competition» on May 1998, the Quartetto Prometeo, in the same occasion, was awarded the «Special Bärenreiter prize for best performance of Mozart’s Quartet K 590 according with the original score», the «City of Prague» prize as best quartet and the «Pro Harmonia Mundi» prize.The Quartetto Prometeo has been designated resident group at the Britten Pears Academy (1998) in Aldeburgh and was recently awarded the «Thomastik Infeld» prize at the Internationale Sommer Akademie Prag-Wien-Budapest-1999 for «outstanding performance of a chamber music work» and the second prize at the Concours International de Quatuors in Bordeaux. In 2000 the Quartetto Prometeo was awarded the Special Bärenreiter Prize at the ARD Münich Competition.
Since the beginning the quartet received many important scholarships from the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole and from the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, where in August 1995 won the prestigious diploma of honour.
Quartetto Prometeo’s brilliant international career include performances at Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Wexford Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Roma (world premieres of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Esercizi di tre stili and Uvietta’s Numi both dedicated to the Prometeo), Società del Quartetto di Milano (world premiere of Ivan Fedele’s Târ), Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, Orlando Festival, Festival “Die Lange Nacht der Elektronischen Klange 2000” in Berlin, Waterfront Hall in Belfast for the BBC, Grand Théâtre in Bordeaux, Foundation Royaumont (world premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s Strada non presa dedicated to the Prometeo), Auditorium Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Boswil Festival, Schloss-Elmau Kammermusikfest, Würzburg Mozartnacht, Le Printemps Musical de Saint-Cosme (2001, 2002 & 2003), Engadiner Festwochen, Kammermusikfest di Saarbrücken (Nono’s Fragmente-stille an Diotim), Rencontres Musicales de Fontainebleau, Colmar Festival (world premiere of Jacques Lenot’s new string quartet), Sanssouci Festival in Potsdam, as well as tours in South America, The Netherlands...
One of the characteristics of the Prometeo is the constant research in putting together the classical repertoire and the new musical expressions our time. Its close collaboration with Salvatore Sciarrino made the acclaimed composer to dedicate to the Prometeo his Esercizi di tre stili and the latest Quartetto n.8 commissioned by Società del Quartetto Milan, MaerzMusik Festival Berlin, Ultima Festival Oslo, Aldeburgh Festival, and recently recorded for the label Kairos, together with his latest works for string quartet.
After having performed the Italian premiere of Târ, Quartetto Prometeo continues the collaboration with Ivan Fedele who is writing for the Prometeo his new work for string quartet and voice commissioned by Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
New releases: works by Brahms, Beethoven and Verdi for LimenMusic.
Quartetto Prometeo recorded for the German ARD, Saarländischer Rundfunk and Bayerishe Rundfunk, the English BBC, Radio France, the Austrian ORF, and regularly for the Italian RAI Radio 3.