French string group at NPAC

The Northshore Performing Arts Center’s season continues Feb. 23 with the acclaimed Amedeo Modigliani Quartet.

Named for the late 19th-early 20th century Jewish-Italian painter and sculptor, the quartet was formed in 2003 by the four young musicians studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM).

The group was admitted to the prestigious string quartet class at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris (CNR), where they worked with Daria Hovora and Marie Bereau. They are currently enrolled in the CNR’s String Quartet Professional Training Program, where they work closely with the Ysaye Quartet.

Now on their first tour of America, the group won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and was also awarded the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, which will sponsor their New York debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. Honored with the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, it will sponsor their Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center. They have also received the Gulbenkian Foundation Concert Prize for a concert in Paris, the Vancouver Recital Society Prize, the Princeton University Concerts Prize, and the Sander Buchman Memorial Prize.