Fringe: Quartet Novalis

Fringe: Quartet Novalis

This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025.

Quartet Novalis is a period-performance ensemble from New York City, featuring Eliana Estrada, Ela Kodžas, Annemarie Schubert, and Luka Stefanović. They explore old concepts of sound and musical understanding in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century string quartets, performing on historical instruments to reveal subtle textures. They were Academy Quartet at the 2024 Carmel Bach Festival and toured NYC afterwards. The name honours the German philosopher Novalis, who saw language and music as living, magical forces beyond reality.

Programme

• Fanny Mendelssohn

  String Quartet in E-flat major
  Adagio ma non troppo
  Allegretto
  Romanze
  Allegro molto vivace

  1805-1847
• Hyacinthe Jadin

  String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 2, no. 1
  Largo – allegro moderato
  Adagio
  Menuetto
  Allegro finale

  1776-1800
• Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga

  String Quartet no. 1 in D minor
  Allegro
  
  Programme subject to change

  1806-1826

Musicians

• Eliana Estrada, Annemarie Schubert, Ela Kodžas violin, viola
• Luka Stefanović cello