MERITA
MERITA - WHERE CHAMBER MUSIC, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TALENT MEET
MERITA – where chamber Music, cultural hERItage and TAlent meet is an online and offline platform that increases the visibility and circulation of young professional European string quartets while promoting European cultural heritage, in a circular economy.
MERITA develops in three areas, training, production and research, and it is founded on the principles of innovation, training and development, promotion and sustainability.
Winner of the Creative Europe – European Platforms 2021 and co-funded by the European Union, the project’s development lasts 3 years and is run by 17 cultural institutions from 12 European countries. It involves 38 string quartets for a total of 152 artists.
DISCOVER MERITA’S 38 SELECTED STRING QUARTETS
The results of quartets selection for MERITA – where chamber Music, hERitage and TAlent meet are now online!
The 38 professional string quartets have been selected by the Artistic Committee among 61 applications received from 27 different countries and they will now have the opportunity to take part in MERITA activities!
THE SELECTED QUARTETS
ADAM Quartet Quartetto Adorno Airis String Quartet Akela Quartet Akhtamar Quartet Quatuor Akilone Alinde Quartett Amai Quartet Animato Quartet Antarja Quartet Atenea Quartet Belinfante Quartet Chaos String Quartet Desguin Kwartet | Quartetto Eos Erinys Quartet Fabrik Quartet Quartet Gerhard Quartetto Goldberg Cuarteto Iberia Quartetto Indaco Kandinsky Quartet Karski Quartet Kleio Quartet Malion Quartett Medea String Quartet String Quartet Meraki Quatuor Mirages | Quatuor Mona Moser String Quartet Nerida Quartet New Cretan Quartet Protean Quartet PuraCorda Ensemble Skazka Kwartet Sonoro Quartet Viride Kwartet Quatuor Wassily |
*DISCOVER MORE ABOUT THEM*
The consortium is represented by Le Dimore del Quartetto, based in Italy, as lead and coordinator of 17 organizations from 12 European countries:
- Comitato AMUR, Milan (Italy)
- European Historic Houses, Bruxelles (Belgium)
- EuAbout Lab ASBL, Bruxelles (Belgium)
- ProQuartet – Centre européen de musique de chambre, Paris (France)
- B & M Theocharakis Foundation, Athens (Greece)
- Stichting Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Europa Nostra, The Hague (Netherlands)
- Traces&Dreams AB, Stockholm (Sweden)
- Lofoten Internasjonale Kammermusikkfest, Oslo (Norway)
- University of Arts of Tirana (Albania)
- Qendra EVENT, Tirana (Albania)
- Julian Cochran Foundation, Warsaw (Poland)
- Beogradska Umetnička Nova Teritorija (Belgrade Artistic New Territory), Belgrado (Serbia)
- Kolarac – Zadužbina Ilije M. Kolarca, Belgrade (Serbia)
- Cadenza Arts Management Ltd., Budapest (Hungary)
- Experimenta – Associação para a Promoção do Design e Cultura de Projecto, Lisbon (Portugal)
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