From March to June 2011, the Quartetto di Venezia will perform a series of four concerts entitled QUARTET!. The programmes will consist of a representative selection of works from the repertory for string quartet, arguably the supreme form of chamber music.
A new idea on the Venetian music scene, this wide-ranging survey of music for string quartet will include performances of masterworks by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schumann, Verdi, Bartok, Shostakovich and Vacchi.

12 March
L.V.Beethoven: Quartetto in Sib maggiore op.18 n.6
D.Sostakovic: Quartetto n.13 in Sib minore op.138 (1970)
R.Schumann: Quartetto in La minore op.41 n.1

10 April
L.Cherubini: Quartetto in La minore n.6
L.V.Beethoven: Quartetto in La minore op.132

7 May
W.A.Mozart: Quartetto in Sib maggiore K.458 “La caccia”
F.Vacchi: Movimento di Quartetto (1999)
G.Verdi: Quartetto in Mi minore

12 June
F.J.Haydn: Quartetto in Sol maggiore op.76 n.1
B.Bartok: Quartetto n.6
L.V.Beethoven: Quartetto in Fa maggiore op.135

Founded in 1983, the Quartetto di Venezia – Andrea Vio and Alberto Battiston (violins), Giancarlo di Vacri (viola) and Angelo Zanin cello – has performed at major international venues and festivals in Italy and abroad: the National Gallery, Washington, the United Nations Building, New York, the Maison de l’Unesco, Paris, the IUC, Rome, the Serate Musicali, Milan, the Kissinger Sommer Festival, the Ossiach-Villach Festival, the KlangBogen Festival, Vienna, the Palau de la Musica, Barcelona, the Tivoli, Copenhagen, the Société Philharmonique, Brussels, the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Taipei and Seoul.