Belgium/Hungary/Spain

"Chamber music at its best is a very intense distillation of what all music is about. If the intensity of what the musicians are doing on stage is strong, if the connection is strong, then a certain energy is created which draws a listener in."  Pau Masferrer Codina, Cello

Formed in 2009, the Idomeneo Quartet held the Chamber Music Fellowship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 2009-2011, studying with Alasdair Tait. They later continued their studies with Rainer Schmidt in Basel and the Vogler Quartet in Stuttgart. 

In 2013, the Quartet was awarded 2nd prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition for String Quartets. Other accolades include the Tunnell Trust Award and being chosen by the Park Lane Group to participate in their concert series in London. 

At the 54th Jeunesse Musicale course in Weikersheim, (with Heime Müller and the Vogler Quartet), they were awarded the 'most convincing newcomer ensemble' prize by the Friends of the Jeunesse Musicale in Germany. They were invited back in the summer of 2015 for masterclasses with the Casals Quartet and Heime Müller. 

The Idomeneo Quartet has held recitals in numerous concert venues all over Europe (Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Norway and Belgium) and extensively throughout the UK, in venues such as Colston Hall, the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall and St Martin in the Fields. They have also given concert tours in Brazil and around Scotland. 

They have performed at various international festivals, including MISQA in Montreal, the King Lynn’s Festival,  the White Crow Music Festival in the Netherlands and Heidelberger Frühlung Internationales Festival in Germany. 

Idomeneo Quartet members

Mark Minoru Derudder - 1st Violin
Balint Gabor Váray - 2nd Violin
Miguel Angel Rodriguez Olivera - Viola
Pau Masferrer Codina - Cello

Round One

HAYDN Quartet in D minor, no 15 K421
JANACEK String Quartet, no 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
ADÈS The Four Quarters

Round Two

HARRISON Balderdash
MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F minor, op 80