Juli Mirzoev (she/her) - violin, Canada
Russell Iceberg (he/him) - violin, USA
Cynthia Blanchon (she/her) - viola, France
Braden McConnell (he/him) - cello, USA

The Myriade Quartet was formed at McGill University and is based on Montreal. With members hailing from Canada, the United States and France, the Myriade Quartet was recently selected to take part in the Trondheim and Wigmore Hall international competitions. As artists-in-residence at the Prince Edward County Festival, the quartet has presented lecture-recitals followed by concerts in 2022 in collaboration with Charles Richard-Hamelin, Scott St-John, Angela Park and Sharon Wei of the New Orford Quartet. In their last season, they performed at Kin Musique, the Baptême series, as part of a residency at the Colorado Music Festival and the Unionville Music Academy, and as a senior quartet at the McGill International String Quartet Academy (MISQA).

The Myriade Quartet was formed under the tutelage of André Roy's, while also receiving valuable guidance from the Danish Quartet, Jerusalem Quartet and Mathieu Herzog, Mark Steinberg, Peter Oundjian, Philip Setzer, Ralph de Souza, Petr Prause, Jeffrey Myers, Richard O'Neill and Ani Kavafian. In the coming months, the Myriade Quartet will record Bartók's Quartet no.2 and Haydn's Quartet op. 74 no.1 with the invaluable support of the Toronto Arts & Letters Club, and perform at Concerts aux Îles du Bic, St Joseph's Church in Montreal and St Bride's Church in London, a concert organized by the Wigmore Hall Competition. 

Ida Derbesse (she/her) - violin, France-Poland
Elena Watson-Perry (she/her), France-U.S.A
Claire Pass-Lanneau (she/they), France
Fiona Robson (she/her) - cello, Canada

The Quatuor Magenta was founded in 2021 and is already performing on France's most prestigious stages, from the Philharmonie de Paris to the Festival de RadioFrance Montpellier. They were finalists of the 8th Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna and prizewinners at the 2023 FNAPEC competition and the 2022 Zukunftsklang Competition Stuttgart. November 2024 marked the quartet's first international tour to Canada, generously supported by the CNM and SPEDIDAM.

The Quatuor Magenta is based in Paris, France, where they are junior artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation and ensemble-in-residence at Propquartet - CEMC. They have been invited to perform at numerous festivals in France, including the Musikfest Parisienne, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Un Temps pour Elles, Un Été en France with Gautier Capuçon and the Quatuor Modigliani's Festival Vibre!, as well as in Switzerland (Festival de la Collégiale in Neuchâtel) and in Germany (Klangraum Konzerte in Cologne).

Last season, contemporary music had pride of place with Qutauor Magenta's participation in the Kronos Quartet's "50 for the Future" Marathon at the Philharmonie de Paris's String Quartet Biennale. Their 2024/25 season included several octet performances alongside the renowned Quatuor Van Kuijk, in partnership with La Belle Saison.

The Quatuor Magenta participated in the inaugural year of the Élite program at the École Normale de Paris, under the mentorship of the Quatuor Modigliani. Other important mentors include the Quatuor Ébène, and Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartet. They are grateful for the support of the Safran Foundation and ADAMI. 

Chaenn Jeon (she/her) - violin, South Korea
Eunjoong Park (he/him) - violin, South Korea
Yoongsun Jang (she/her) - viola, South Korea
Seonghyeon Park (he/him) - cello, South Korea

Founded in September 2019, Arete Quartet passed unanimously the Kumho Art Hall Young chamber concert audition the same year and made its debut in September 2020 at Kumho Art Hall Yonsei University. After studying with Jaeyoung Kim, first violin of the Novus Quartet, the young quartet performed in various venues in Korea before moving to Munich, Germany, to study with Crisoph Poppen at the Hoschule für Musik und Theater.

During its young career as a quartet, the Arete Quartet has already won a number of important prizes: First prize at the Prague Spring International Music Competition (2021), First prize at the Salzburg Mozart International Competition (2023) and First prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition (2024).

At the 2024 Premio Paolo-Borciani Competition in Reggio Emilia, the quartet reached the third round but was unable to continue performing due to a medical emergency.

Nevertheless, the jury of the Premio Paolo-Borciani Competition awarded the quartet a special prize for 'the unique voice it showed during the first three rounds of the 2024 Premio Paolo-Borciani'. In addition, the Fondazione | Teatri and ProQuartet European Chamber Music Centre announced their support for the Arete Quartet at this complex moment.