In addition to participating in international guitar festivals (in the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Serbia, and the UK), the Bratislava Guitar Quartet is a frequent guest at prestigious music festivals (Bratislava Music Festival, Epoché, Mitte-Europa, Musica Nobilis) and performs in renowned music venues (Slovak Philharmonic, Rudolfinum in Prague, State Philharmonic Košice, Slovak State Philharmonic Žilina, etc.).
The quartet also performs original recital programs in European capitals such as Madrid, Paris, Prague, and Vienna. Among their successes, the artists particularly value their numerous collaborations with orchestras (Capella Istropolitana, Slovak State Philharmonic Žilina, Musica Cassovia, etc.) and conductors (Peter Breiner, Oliver Dohnányi, Gabriele de Esteban, Robert Mareček, Maroš Potokár), which have led to performances of many concert works for guitar quartet and orchestra (Breiner, Burlas, Gismonti–Brouwer, Rodrigo).
The ensemble highly values close artistic contact with composers from both the national and international scenes, outstanding among whom are Peter Breiner, Leo Brouwer, Martin Burlas, Mathias Duplessy, Vladimír Godár, Pavol Malovec, Apostolos Paraskevas, and Peter Zagar. The quartet’s artistic projects also include collaborations with singers Eva Šušková and Petra Noskaiová, guitarist and cuatro player Silfredo Perez, as well as the renowned Moyzes Quartet.
The band’s discography includes the albums Recital (Akcent, 2000), Šeban – Godár – Breiner – Kolkovič (Hevhetia, 2009), and Slovak Music for Guitar Quartet (Diskant, 2011), featuring several world premieres of works by Slovak composers dedicated to the ensemble (Breiner, Burlas, Krák, Malovec, and others).
The ensemble’s repertoire consists of original compositions of 20th-century music, which also form the core of their current program dedicated to music for guitar quartet (Assad, Brouwer, Duplessy, Malovec, Nousis, Rodrigo, York, and others). The second part of their repertoire consists of numerous arrangements of music from various eras—from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic periods to 20th-century music (Byrd, Praetorius, Carulli, Bizet, de Falla, Poulenc, Stravinsky).
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