Concert May 16 and 17, 2026, 5:00 PM - string quartet

This coming weekend, May 16-17, the Recital Hall at Giardini La Mortella will feature the New Era string quartet, composed of violinists Kristina Mlinar and Teodora Kaličanin, violist Francesca Senatore, and cellist Alessandro Pietro Dore.

The New Era Quartet was founded in 2021 at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste and has won important awards in prestigious competitions since its inception: the 2023 National Arts Award, 2nd Prize and Special Prize at the Giulio Rospigliosi International Chamber Music Competition, and 1st Prize at the 2024 Lilian Caraian Prize. In 2024, the quartet also received the Young Excellences Award for Ensemble Music in Trieste, presented by Archduchess Hertha Margarethe of Habsburg-Lorraine, president of the Flame of Peace Association. The New Era Quartet's concert activity includes performances at major national and international festivals (a three-concert tour in France in 2023, and Montenegro, Vienna, and Madrid in 2025). Since 2022, the New Era Quartet has been a member of the Le Dimore del Quartetto network. The ensemble has attended masterclasses with leading musicians and is currently pursuing advanced studies at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona under the guidance of the Masters of the Cremona Quartet and at the Perosi Academy with Oliver Wille.

The program that the New Era Quartet will offer to the audience at La Mortella is of extraordinary musical importance, including two undisputed masterpieces: Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven's Op. 59 No. 3, known as the "Razumosky" quartet after the Russian aristocrat to whom Beethoven dedicated Op. 53. It is precisely in the form of the string quartet that the great composer concentrated his greatest experimentation during the period in which Beethoven composed Opus 53, published in 1808: works of unprecedented originality and personal language, they mark the beginning "of a new era in the history of the string quartet; they are the spiritual parents of all the quasi-orchestral quartets of the late nineteenth century".

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