Chae-ann Jeon, violin
Eun-joong Park, violin
Yoon-sun Jang, viola
Seonghyeon Park, cello
Founded in September 2019, Arete Quartet passed the Kumho Art Hall Young Chamber Concert audition the same year and made its debut in September 2020 at Kumho Art Hall Yonsei University. sity. After studying with Jaeyoung Kim, first violin of the Novus Quartet, the young quartet performed in various venues in Korea before moving to Munich, Germany, to study with Christoph Poppen at the Hochschule für Mus ik und Theater.
During its young career as a quartet, the Arete Quartet has already won a number of important prizes: First prize at the Prague Spring International Music Competition (2021), First prize at the Salzburg Mozart International Competition (2023) and First prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition mbre de Lyon (2024). At the 2024 Premio Paolo-Borciani Competition in Reggio Emilia, the quartet
reached the third round but was unable to continue performing due to a medical emergency.
Nevertheless, the jury of the Premio Paolo-Borciani Competition awarded the quartet a special prize for ‘the unique voice it showed during the first three rounds of the 2024 Premio Paolo-Borciani’. In addition, the Fondazione I Teatri and ProQuartet European Chamber Music Centre announced their support for the Arete
PIECES PLAYED
First round
Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703, ‘Quartettsatz’
Joseph Haydn, Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76, No. 4 – Allegro con spirito
Alban Berg, Lyric Suite
Semi-final
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quintet No. 1 for two violas in A major, Op. 18 with violist Lise Berthaud – Allegro con moto
Jörg Widmann, String Quartet No. 3 ‘Hunting Quartet’
Robert Schumann, String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
Final
Kryštof Mařatka, AMEDEA – visage de jeune fille
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet No. 19 in C major, Op. 10 No. 6, K.465, ‘Dissonance’
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 ’Rasumovsky’
