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Ragazze Quartet
Ragazze Quartet is a Dutch string quartet. The quartet completed a two-year full-time education at the Dutch String Quartet Academy, graduating in 2011. In 2013, the quartet won the Kersjes Prize, an award given annually to an exceptional talent in Dutch chamber music. In 2017, Ragazze Quartet won the Operadagen Rotterdam Award.
Since the end of 2024, Ragazze Quartet consists of violinists Rosa Arnold and Jeanita Vriens-van Tongeren, viola player Annemijn Bergkotte and cellist Nathalie Flintrop. Previous cellists were Geneviève Verhage (-2013), Kirsten Jenson, Amber Docters van Leeuwen and Rebecca Wise (2016-2024).
Ragazze Quartet frequently collaborates with other musicians, theatre makers and organizations such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Kronos Quartet, Orkater and Holland Festival. Additionally, since 2017 the quartet has been artistic director of September Me in Amersfoort, a music festival for discoverers and wanderers.
Vivere (Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Jörg Widmann) (2013)
Česko (Antonín Dvořák, Erwin Schulhoff) (2015)
Four Four Three (Terry Riley) with Kapok and Slagwerk Den Haag (2016)
The Secret Diary of Nora Plain (Lucky Fonz III/Morris Kliphuis) with Nora Fischer and Remco Menting (2017)
Spiegel (Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig van Beethoven) (2017)
Bartók Bound (Béla Bartók) (2019)
Bartók Bound vol.
Since the end of 2024, Ragazze Quartet consists of violinists Rosa Arnold and Jeanita Vriens-van Tongeren, viola player Annemijn Bergkotte and cellist Nathalie Flintrop. Previous cellists were Geneviève Verhage (-2013), Kirsten Jenson, Amber Docters van Leeuwen and Rebecca Wise (2016-2024).
Ragazze Quartet frequently collaborates with other musicians, theatre makers and organizations such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Kronos Quartet, Orkater and Holland Festival. Additionally, since 2017 the quartet has been artistic director of September Me in Amersfoort, a music festival for discoverers and wanderers.
Vivere (Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Jörg Widmann) (2013)
Česko (Antonín Dvořák, Erwin Schulhoff) (2015)
Four Four Three (Terry Riley) with Kapok and Slagwerk Den Haag (2016)
The Secret Diary of Nora Plain (Lucky Fonz III/Morris Kliphuis) with Nora Fischer and Remco Menting (2017)
Spiegel (Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig van Beethoven) (2017)
Bartók Bound (Béla Bartók) (2019)
Bartók Bound vol.
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