Duke Arts Presents: Cuarteto Casals

Since winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions, Cuarteto Casals, which was founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofía in Madrid, has been a continual guest at the world's most prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Cité de la Musique Paris, Philharmonie Paris, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Suntory Hall among many others.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the quartet released to much critical acclaim a recording of the complete 'Art of Fugue' by J.S. Bach and is currently undertaking a recording of all 15 quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the great cycles of the 20th Century which will be released in the fall of 2024.

With more than 27 years of experience together, the Cuarteto Casals has compiled a substantial discography with the Harmonia Mundi label featuring repertoire ranging from lesser known Spanish composers Arriaga and Toldrá to Viennese classics Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, through 20th Century greats Debussy, Ravel, Zemlinsky, Bartok, Ligeti and Kurtag, as well as a live Blue-Ray recording of the complete Schubert quartets, for Neu Records.