Kyoka Misawa, violin
Rintaro Kikuno, violin
Itsuki Yamamoto, viola
Ye Un Park, cello
Hailing from Tokyo and now based in Hanover, the young Integra Quartet has already earned several distinctions: Third Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2025 and First Prize at the Bartók World Competition 2021. This year, they are in residence in Bordeaux for Vibre!
In the bee-adorned Salle Montesquieu of the Cour d’appel de Bordeaux, they will present a program of light and shadow, opening with the radiant quartet “The Bird” by Joseph Haydn. Famous for its singing melodies, trills, and lively rondo finale, this third of the six “Russian Quartets” adopts a more popular and lighter tone than Op. 20, composed ten years earlier.
Following Haydn’s humor, the Integra will perform the equally celebrated quartet “Death and the Maiden” by Franz Schubert. From the psychological tensions of the first movement to the feverish final tarantella—marked by clashes, intensity, and obsessive surges—the work vividly conveys the emotions of a composer tormented by the inexorable approach of death.
An emotionally intense program, providing the perfect canvas for Integra’s “richness of color” and “sparkling rhythms” (All News Press)!
Program :
Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3
Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 “Death and the Maiden”
