Quatuor Magenta

The Quatuor Magenta is based in Paris, where they are ensemble-in-residence at ProQuartet – Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre and junior artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation. They have been invited to perform at numerous festivals in France and abroad, including the Musikfest Parisienne, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Un Temps pour Elles, Un Été en France with Gautier Capuçon, the Modigliani Quartet’s Festival Vibre!, Festival de la Collégiale in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Klangraum Konzerte in Cologne.

Last season, Quatuor Magenta participated in the Kronos Quartet’s «50 for the Future» Marathon at the Philharmonie de Paris’s String Quartet Biennale performing a contemporary programme. This season includes seven octet performances alongside the renowned Quatuor Van Kuijk, in partnership with the esteemed touring festival La Belle Saison.

The Quatuor Magenta was honoured to participate in the inaugural year of the Élite program at the École Normale de Paris, under the mentorship of the Quatuor Modigliani. They currently study with the Quatuor Ébène at their quartet academy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, as well as with Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartet at the Basel University of Music. They are grateful for the support of the Safran Foundation and ADAMI.

Quatuor Magenta comprises Ida Derbesse (violin), Elena Watson (violin), Claire Pass-Lanneau (viola) and Fiona Robson (cello)