Mozart e Strauss – Quartetti in MO-STRA

Misia Iannoni Sebastianini - violin
Martina Santarone - viola
Vladimir Bogdanovic - violoncello
Antonino Fiumara - piano

Founded in 2016, the Werther Quartet is considered one of the most promising chamber ensembles on the national and international concert scene. It constitutes one of the rare stable piano quartets in Europe, appreciated for the deep understanding and firm cohesion of its musicians, for the vigour, vitality and originality of its interpretations aimed at authentic understanding and respect for the musical text. Values and directions that the Quartet learned from the Trio di Parma and Pierpaolo Maurizzi, heirs to the great Italian performing tradition, and from Patrick Jüdt and the Central European school of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy).

Since its foundation, the Quartet has collaborated with the most important Italian musical institutions and made its debut for the prestigious Kammermusik Basel at the Stadt-Casino in Basel. Institutions the Quartet has been a guest of include the Società del Quartetto di Milano, the Società dei Concerti di Milano, the Società dei Concerti di Trieste, the Fondazione Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Bologna Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, the Amici della Musica di Firenze, Musikamera, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Società dei Concerti di Parma, the Moscow International House of Music, the Festival Musikdorf Ernen.

The Quartet's intense concert activity has been recognised both by the National Association of Italian Critics, which in 2020 awarded it the XXXIX ‘Abbiati’-‘Farulli’ Prize dedicated to the best young ensemble, and by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, which awarded it the President of the Republic's Prize in memory of Giuseppe Sinopoli, delivered directly by Sergio Mattarella during an official ceremony at the Quirinale Palace. They were in fact students of the Academy's Courses in Carlo Fabiano's class, receiving a “special mention for exceptional chamber music skills”, a recognition never awarded in more than 80 years of history of the Academy's Courses.

Over the years they have also been appreciated by international juries, winning Third Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition ‘Trio di Trieste’ 2019, Third Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition of Pinerolo 2023 and Second Prize at the International Competition ‘G. Bergamo’ 2024 in Lugano. 

Since 2018, the Werther has been a member of ‘Le Dimore del Quartetto’, a cultural enterprise that enhances the European artistic heritage. 

Werther also promotes the performance of Italian Contemporary Music, collaborating with famous composers such as Nicola Campogrande and Alessandro Solbiati, whose piece Imago, written and dedicated to the Quartet, was premiered for the Piacenza Concert Society in the 2024/25 Season.

In 2021, the Dutch label Brilliant Classics released Fauré Piano Quartets, the Quartet's first disc, which received positive critical and listening feedback and was broadcast on numerous radio programmes in Italy and beyond the Alps. 

A new recording project, representing the history and spirit of the Quartet, is being released in 2025 by the German label Genuin.