Quatuor Danel (String Quartet / Belgium)[Member] Marc Danel (Violin), Gilles Millet (Violin)
Vlad Bogdanas (Viola), Yovan Markovitch (Cello)
BIOGRAPHYThe Quatuor Danel was founded in 1991 and has been at the forefront of the internationalmusic scene ever since, with important concert performances worldwide and a row ofgroundbreaking CD recordings. The quartet is famous for their bold, concentrated
interpretations of the string quartet cycles of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich,and Weinberg. Their lively and fresh vision on the traditional quartet repertoire hasdelivered them subsequent praise from public and press. The other part of their force lies inthe collaboration with major contemporary composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut
Lachenmann, Sofia Gubaidulina, Pascal Dusapin Jorg Widmann and Bruno Mantovani.
Russian composers have a special place in the Quatuor Danel’s repertoire. They havechampioned all string quartets by Shostakovich and recorded the complete cycle for Fuga
Libera in 2005. This box-set was re-issued by Alpha and still counts as one of thebenchmark interpretations of Shostakovich’ quartets. The Danel were the first quartet torecord the other great string quartet cycle of the twentieth century: the 17 quartets byMieczysław Weinberg. Their performance in Manchester and Utrecht was the first timeever live interpretation of the complete Weinberg cycle worldwide.

Education is also at the heart of the activities of the Quatuor Danel. An essential part oftheir mission is to pass on their knowledge, their experience and the musical heritage theyreceived from their own mentors: members of the Amadeus and Borodin Quartets, Fyodor
Druzhinin, Pierre Penassou, Walter Levin and Hugh Maguire. Since 2005, the Quatuor
Danel is quartet in residence at the University of Manchester, where they uphold a
tradition of coaching and collaborations with world-renowned musicologists. Since 2015,
they also teach regularly at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam. Theygave classes at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Marylandand Skidmore College, at the Taipei National University of the Arts, at Conservatoire ofMusic and Dance Lyon the Conservatoires of Lille and Nice and at the Kuhmo ChamberMusic Festival.
The quartet’s current diary will take them to the major concert halls in Brussels,
Amsterdam, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Hamburg, Milano, Taipei, Tokyo, New York,Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but they are also comfortable playing in lesser
known intimate venues. Quatuor Danel is a regular guest at festivals such as Ottawa,
Kuhmo, Cork, Lofoten, Schleswig-Holstein, Bregenz, Schostakowitsch Tage Gorisch,Luzern Zaubersee, Sakharov Festival, Richter Festival, Enescu Festival, Fayence, Luberon,Montpellier, Folle Journée de Nantes and Musica Mundi. Present seasons the Danel will befeaturing a series of quartet cycles around the world: the complete Shostakovich andWeinberg cycles at Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and Tivoli Vredenburg
Utrecht, Philharmonie de Paris. Complete Beethoven cycles sound in Jerusalem, Taipei,Lyon, Badenweiler, Manchester and finally in Utrecht.
In October 2016, the Quatuor Danel started a 3-year residency in Utrecht, consisting ofconcerts, masterclasses, lectures and unusual collaborations with other artists. The Danel’s
will be in residency in Wigmore Hall for three years in 2019.
In September 2018 the Piano Quintet and String Quartet by Caesar Franck was released
with CPO. Future CD’s feature the complete Tchaïkovsky quartets and Sextet ‘Souvenir theFlorence’, Hartmann Concerto for Clarinette and Quartet with the OPRL, and a longer
term project with the late Beethoven quartets.
Official Website

https://www.quatuordanel.eu/