ARDITTI STRING QUARTET

ARDITTI STRING QUARTET 2014

On may 21 the ARDITTI STRING QUARTET will give the world premiere of RODRIGO VALDEZ HERMOSO's String Quartet No.3, -RED over WHITE-.

The concert will be performed in the Main Hall of the Palace of Fine Arts in México City, as part of the XXXVI FORO INTERNACIONAL DE MUSICA NUEVA "MANUEL ENRÍQUEZ", as well as being part of the celebration for the 40th ANIVERSARY of the ARDITTI STRING QUARTET and the 80th ANIVERSARY of the NATIONAL PALACE OF FINE ARTS. The program will be integrated by music of Jonathan Harvey, Javier Torres Maldonado, Elliott Carter, Conlon Nancarrow and Rodrigo Valdez Hermoso.

String Quartet No.3 -RED over WHITE- was comissioned by the QUATUOR MOLINARI and was made possible by a bilateral agreement between the governments of Mexico and Quebec with the generous support of the CONSEIL DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU QUEBEC (CALQ) and the FONDO NACIONAL PARA LA CULTURA Y LAS ARTES (FONCA).