Lea Galasso founded 2020 the Moser String Quartet

Lea our ex-scholarship holder founded the Moser String Quartet in 2020. Multi-award-winning Moser String Quartet has performed in many countries such as Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Canada and Japan. After only three years since their path started, Moser Quartet has been awarded 1st Prize in the International Competition Gran Premi Musical Lauredià (Andorra), 2nd Prize in the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition (Switzerland) and the Special Award
 

Music Competition (Switzerland) and the Special Award: “Ambassador Ensemble of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2023”  (Japan).

 As a Swiss-based ensemble, Moser Quartet is very enthusiastic about performing contemporary pieces especially by Swiss composers, which has led them to win the 3rd Prize in the Concours Nicati (Switzerland). They also made their debut at Stadtcasino Basel performing Dieter Ammann’s “Distanzenquartett” and premiered Verena Weinmann’s “We are______.”, composed for Moser Quartet, in Swiss Chamber Music Festival. Moser Quartet is mentored by Rainer Schmidt, Silvia Simionescu, Anton Kernjak, Anna Gebert, and Geneviève Strosser at Hochschule für Musik, Basel. They have also been under the tutelage of renowned musicians including Cuarteto Casals, Quatuor Ébène, Alban Berg Quartett, Heime Müller, Eberhard Feltz and Johannes Meissl at various international organisations such as IMS Prussia Cove, MISQA, ICMC Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland and ECMA.
 

For the season 2023-24, Moser String Quartet is in residence at ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, on top of being part of Le Dimore del Quartetto Network and the MERITA Platform.

© Anna Tena 2024