Quatuor Arod

Jordan VICTORIA (Violin by Francesco Goffriller),  Alexandre VU (Violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini), Tanguy PARISOT (Viola by Carlo Ferdinando Landolphi, Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza – 1775), Jérémy GARBARG (Cello by Giovanni Battista Ruggieri  – circa 1700)

Quatuor Arod takes its name from Legolas’ horse in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy – in Tolkien’s mythic Rohirric language, Arod means ‘swift’. Established in 2013, the ensemble came to the attention on the international stage when they won First Prize at the prestigious ARD International Music Competition in Munich, having already taken First Prize at the Carl Nielsen Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen in 2015 and at the FNAPEC European Competition (Paris) in 2014.

Since then Quatuor Arod have performed regularly at the Auditorium of the Louvre, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris), the Arsenal concert halls in Metz, Bordeaux and Montpellier in their native France, London’s Wigmore Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum and the Schloss Elmau in Germany, the Bozar (Brussels), the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tonhalle Zurich, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisboa and in Italy, Tokyo, Denmark, Serbia…

The quartet has been invited to perform at several international festivals: Verbier and Montreux (Switzerland), Aix-en-Provence, Menton, Salon-de-Provence, Folle Journée de Nantes, The Pablo Casals Festival of Prades (France), Heidelberg, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musikfest Bremen, Mozartfest Würzburg, Prague Spring Music Festival and more.

In 2017, Quatuor Arod premiered the first string quartet by French composer Benjamin Attahir (commissioned by La Belle Saison, ProQuartet and Quatuor Arod). They are invited to perform alongside artists such as violists Amihai Grosz and Mathieu Herzog, clarinetists Martin Fröst, Romain Guyot and Michel Lethiec, pianist Eric Lesage, and cellists Raphaël Pidoux, François Salque, Harriet Krijgh and Bruno Philippe.

The Quatuor Arod studied with Mathieu Herzog and Jean Sulem, and was artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels with the Artemis Quartet. They also worked with the Ebène Quartet and Diotima Quartet.

In 2017, Quatuor Arod signed an exclusive recording contract with Erato / Warner Classics.