Mathilde Potier, violin
Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, violin
Jean-Baptiste Souchon-Graziani, viola
Madeleine Douçot, cello
The Quatuor Métamorphoses was born of a strong desire to explore the repertoire of the string quartet, and to share with an ever-wider audience its demanding nature, its richness, and sometimes its violence too, in the same musical breath. The result is a series of metamorphoses, like those recounted by Ovid in his masterpiece to which the Quartet wished to pay tribute: fleeting, perpetual and above all plural.
After graduating with a master’s degree in chamber music in the class of François Salque (Ysaÿe Quartet) at the CNSMDP, the Quartet had the opportunity to study for several years with Hatto Beyerle, a founding member of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, at the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), of which the Quartet has been a nominated member since 2018. After Postgraduate Studies at the Vienna University of Music (MDW Wien) in the class of Johannes Meissl (2022-2023), the Quartet is now in residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Belgium) under the direction of Corina Belcea, Miguel Da Silva and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. The Quartet also studies with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) at the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid, and with the Modigliani Quartet at the Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot, Paris.
The Quartet has also received invaluable advice from the Quatuor Ebène at the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Quatuor Kronos at the Biennale de Quatuors à Cordes de la Philharmonie de Paris, Ori Kam (Jerusalem Quartet) at the Académie Ravel, as well as Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet), Christophe Coin (Mosaïques Quartet), Eckart Runge (Artemis Quartet), Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Alfred Brendel, Itamar Golan, and Patrick Jüdt.
The Quatuor Métamorphoses won the ProQuartet prize at the FNAPEC European competition, and is a scholarship holder and prizewinner at the Académie Ravel. It is also a prizewinner at the Tremplin pour jeunes Quatuors de la Philharmonie de Paris, and a prizewinner at the Fondation de l’abbaye de Royaumont et de Villefavard.
This career has led them to perform in the most prestigious concert halls: Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Franz Liszt Academy Budapest, Teatro Goldoni in Florence, the Prades Festival, Quatuors à Bordeaux, the Potager du Roi in Versailles (at the invitation of Gérard Caussé and the Quatuor Modigliani), the Cordes sur Ciel Festival, the Les Arcs Festival and the Radio Classique Festival, at the Nuit du Quatuor alongside the Quatuors Hermès and Zaïde, and with Nemanja Radulovic, Pierre Génisson, Laure Favre-Kahn, François Salque, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Alexis Descharmes, Roman Borisov, Aurélien Pontier, Ambroisine Bré, Virgile Roche and Paul Zientara.
The repertoire of the Quatuor Métamorphoses ranges from the great masters of the genre to explorations of the most contemporary repertoires, from Haydn to Aftab Darvishi, and is committed to bringing little-known works to light through innovative projects, such as the show ‘Du coq à l’alouette’, written entirely by the Quartet and premiered in 2022, or ‘Une pièce bien à elles’, devoted to works from our heritage, which it is keen to perform in all kinds of venues and for all kinds of audiences.
The Quatuor Métamorphoses is currently artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Waterloo, Belgium), and is represented by Agence Claire Laballery for France and abroad.
