Quatuor Andara

string quartet

Quartet in junior residence at the University of Montreal, the Andara Quartet stands out both for its dynamism and its quality of execution. It was in September 2014, around Ravel’s F Major Quartet, that its members met for the first time at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, under the tutelage of Denis Brott. Since then, their passion and complicity have taken them to stages all over Quebec, and numerous high-level international internships have allowed them to work with musicians such as Günter Pichler, Mathieu Herzog and the Talich String Quartet in publishing 2018 from MISQA, the St. Lawrence String Quartet at Stanford (CA) in the summers of 2018 and 2017, Johannes Meissl and the Shanghai Quartet at the Pablo Casals Festival in France in 2017 as well as Barry Shiffman and Mark Steinberg at the Banff Chamber Music Residency in 2016.

Winners of first prize at the Pierre-de-Saurel Classical Music Competition in 2015 and at the Sherbrooke Competition in 2017 and 2019, they also participated in the very first edition of the Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam in 2018 and performed there, among other things, for members of the Emerson Quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga, Signum Quartet and Quatuor Danel.

The Andara Quartet was the ensemble in residence for the Concerts in the 21st century program at the Banff Center last February and the ensemble for the career development residency at Ottawa Chamberfest in August 2019.

Marie-Claire plays on an Andrea Guarneri Cremona 1660 violin and a Hill & Sons bow, and Dominique plays on a David Tecchler cello (1704) and a Pierre Simon bow (c. 1855), all graciously provided their disposal by the company Canimex Inc. of Drummondville (QC), Canada.

Marie Claire Vaillancourt, violin
Jeanne Côté, violin
Vincent Delorme, viola
Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy, cello