It is a regular guest at the world’s top venues and finest String Quartet and Chamber Music series. In 2017 it was a special honor for the quartet to be the first string quartet ever performing in the big hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In 2020, the quartet became artistic director of the string quartet festival “Vibre! Quatuors à Bordeaux” as well as the renowned “The Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition”; also, the quartet is the founder and artistic director of the Saint-Paul-de-Vence Festival. Since autumn 2023 they have been teaching the first String Quartet class at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot.

The Quatuor Modigliani has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released 13 award winning CDs since. In January 2024, the quartet’s latest album with string quartets by Grieg and Smetana was published and received enthusiastically by the international press: “The French Quatuor Modigliani brings these highly emotional works to life with energy, color and glowing passion.” (Rondo, January 2024) The recording was also featured in the bestseller list 2-2024 (category chamber music) at the “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”. In the season 2024/2025, the Quatuor Modigliani is dedicating itself to the greatest challenge in the life of a string quartet: recording all 16 string quartets by Beethoven.

Other highlights of the new season include a tour of North America in October 2024, as well as concerts at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the L’Auditori in Barcelona (as part of the string quartet biennial), the Konserthus Stockholm or at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg.

Thanks to the generosity and support of private sponsors, the Quatuor Modigliani plays on four outstanding Italian instruments:

Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1715 violin by Stradivari,
Loïc Rio plays a 1780 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini,
Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 viola by Luigi Mariani,
François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller.


The Quatuor Modigliani also thanks SPEDIDAM for its help.

2024 / 2025