Charlotte Maclet, violon
Leslie Boulin Raulet, violon
Sarah Chenaf, alto
Juliette Salmona, violoncelle
Created in Paris in 2009, the quartet has played at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Paris and Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestras, the Bozar in Brussels, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Théâtre de la Ville, the Bouffes du Nord, the Musée d’Orsay auditorium, the KKL in Lucerne, the Concerthuset in Stockholm, the Mupa in Budapest, the Müsikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Barbican Hall in London, the Festspiehaus in Baden Baden, the Jordan Hall in Boston, the Merkin Hall in New York, the Domaine Forget in Quebec City, the Teatro Colon in Bogota, the Sesc in San Paulo, the auditorium of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Xi’an Concert Hall, the Teong Yeong Concert Hall, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and tours regularly in France and abroad.
Since 2018, the musicians have been artistic directors of the Lubéron International String Quartet Festival.
Just after forming, the group won an impressive series of prizes in international competitions: unanimous first prize in the Charles Hennen Competition 2010, first prize in the Beijing International Chamber Music Competition BMJC 2011, first prize in the Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna in 2012. It also won the Banff Quartet Competition (Canada) in 2010, the ARD in Munich in 2012, and the Press Prize at the Bordeaux International Competition in 2010. The group was also awarded an HSBC prize in 2010, and selected to take part in the Rising Star ECHO programme in 2015. The quartet would like to thank Société Générale’s Mécénat musical for its invaluable support in its early days.
The quartet has been an ‘associate artist’ of the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris since summer 2020.
The Zaïde Quartet has regularly received invaluable advice from Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Gordan Nicolic and Goran Gribajecvic, whom it considers to be its mentors. Today, the members of the quartet like to pass on their passion and regularly offer masterclasses in the cities where they perform.
Since 2013, the quartet has forged a close collaboration with the NoMadMusic label, which has released four albums, all of which have received rave reviews, including 4F Telerama for the Haydn album (2015) and a Classica award for the Franck-Chausson album (2017). The latest album, Amadeus, released in April 2019, is also highly acclaimed by critics (choc Classica) and audiences alike.
It is with great pleasure that the musicians of the quartet regularly collaborate with artists such as Abdel Raman El Bacha, Beatrice Rana, Alexander Lonquich, Eric Le Sage, Bertrand Chamayou, Adam Laloum, Jonas Vitaud, David Kadouch, Da Sol Kim, Lise de la Salle, Nicolas Alsteadt, Jérôme Pernoo, Edgar Moreau, Yovan Markoviic, Bruno Philippe, Sung Won Yang, Camille Thomas, Julian Steckel, François Salque, Michel Portal, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Raphaël Severe, Tommaso Lonquich, Dyonnisis Grammenos, Lise Berthaud, Miguel Da Silva, Antoine Tammestit, Karine Deshayes, Catherine Trottman, Andrea Hill, the Voce, Zemlinsky, Kuss, Doric and Auryn quartets.
The ensemble makes it a point of honour not to specialise in any particular repertoire, in the firm belief that the music of the past informs the music of the present, and that we cannot understand the music of the past without inhabiting the music of the present. The creation of new works is one of the quartet’s main interests, and it has had the immense honour of performing works by Francesca Verunelli, Marco Momi and Bryce Dessner for the first time.
The four artists are also keen to explore other musical styles, having collaborated over the past year with jazzmen Yaron Herman and Marion Rampal, rappers Fianso, Chilla and Lord Esperanza, and singers Camélia Jordana and Bénabar.
Charlotte Maclet plays a JB Vuillaume violin on loan from the Zilber Vatelot Rampal Foundation.
Leslie Boulin Raulet plays a Tononi school violin on loan from the Fond Instrumental Français
Sarah Chenaf plays an anonymous 17th century Italian viola
Juliette Salmona plays a cello by Claude Augustin Miremont on loan from the Association des Amis du Violoncelle.
