Casals Quartet with Santiago Cañón-Valencia

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Cuarteto Casals, a leading force in international chamber music, has established itself as one of the foremost string quartets after nearly three decades of its journey. Founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, Cuarteto Casals has become a regular guest at many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique and Philharmonie de Paris, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Their profound devotion to the heart of every work is reflected in a discography of around twenty albums for the Harmonia Mundi label, spanning works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, the complete Beethoven quartets, as well as 20th-century masters such as Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, and Ligeti. Colombian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia is a prolific soloist, composer, commissioner, recording artist, painter, and photographer described as “technically flawless… totally under the skin of the composers’ idioms” (The Strad). He was named a BBC New Generation Artist in 2022. Born in Bogotá in 1995, Cañón-Valencia made his orchestral debut as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá at age six, blossoming into an accomplished musician praised as “an artist from whom sound and texture flow with ease and authenticity” (The Whole Note) and a “virtuoso of outstanding versatility and technical ease” (The Violin Channel). This performance is part of ProMusica’s 2026-2027 season. Free and open to the public; donations appreciated.

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