Quartetto Pegreffi

Formed in 2023, the Pegreffi Quartet is one of the most promising emerging ensembles on the Italian chamber music scene. Through its name, it has the honour of paying tribute to the violinist Elisa Pegreffi, second violin of the Quartetto Italiano, and its aim is to preserve and represent the Italian quartet tradition in the present day.

In 2024, it was awarded the Amici della Musica di Verona Prize and was among the ten quartets selected to participate in the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2025. In 2023, it was selected to join the class of Cuarteto Casals and Maestro Heime Müller at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, where it received the “Ciampi” scholarship for the best chamber group. Both in Fiesole and in Munich, it was also chosen to take part in the sessions of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA).

The Quartet obtained a second-level Master’s degree in Chamber Music with highest honours, distinction and special mention under the guidance of the Trio di Parma and Maestro Pierpaolo Maurizzi at the “Arrigo Boito” Conservatory in Parma. It is currently continuing its advanced studies by attending the “Ébène Quartet Academy” with the Quatuor Ébène and Raphaël Merlin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, as well as the Chamber Music course at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Heime Müller and the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with the Quartetto di Cremona.

Its commitment to in-depth stylistic research has led it to take part in a seminar focused on the classical repertoire held by Maestro Lorenzo Coppola at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, and to further explore the subject with the musicologist Clive Brown.

The ensemble performs regularly for important Italian and European musical institutions such as Festival delle Nazioni, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Brahms Festival in Lübeck, Società dei Concerti di Parma, SilenzioMusica Festival, and Amici del Quartetto di Reggio Emilia.

Since December 2023, it has been part of Le Dimore del Quartetto, through which it has performed in the concert series promoted by the AMUR Committee “Musica con Vista”. It is also part of the musical association “Musica con le Ali”, which promotes the best emerging Italian chamber ensembles.

The Pegreffi Quartet has attended masterclasses with distinguished musicians such as Günter Pichler, Raphaël Merlin, Vera Martínez Mehner, Kyril Zlotnikov, Patrick Jüdt, Xandi van Dijk, Pavel Nikl, Andrea Lucchesini and Andrea Nannoni.