Since its foundation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established itself as one of the most interesting chamber music realities at an international level and is regularly invited to perform in the main music festivals and reviews in Europe, South America, the United States and in the Far East, receiving unanimous public and critical acclaim.
In 2017 the complete Beethoven Quartets were released by the German record company Audite. Among the most recent awards, in February 2017 he obtained the Supersonic Award of the German magazine Pizzicato and in July 2017 the Echo Klassik 2017 award assigned to volume VII of Beethoven's complete works.
In 2011 the Quartet published the complete quartets by Fabio Vacchi for Decca and, in 2012, recorded a disc entirely dedicated to Italian composers, entitled "Italian Journey". In July 2017 he made his debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where he returned in January 2018 to participate in the String Quartet Biennale. He will soon tour the United States, China, Denmark, Germany and England. Since autumn 2011, the Quartet has held the chair of the “High Specialization Course for String Quartet” at the W. Stauffer Academy in Cremona, and is regularly invited to hold masterclasses in Europe and the United States. He is testimonial of the international project "Friends of Stradivari" and, thanks to the interest of the network, he currently plays Antonio Stradivari's "Paganini Quartet",
Born in 1991 in Moscow, Anna Geniushene began studying piano at the Shostakovi School of Music
with Eleonora Tagusheva at the age of five; later, she continued her studies with Irina Gabrielova at the Fryderyk Chopin Music College. You recently graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Elena Kuznetsova. With an ABRSM scholarship she is studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, under the supervision of Christopher Elton.
Since the age of eight, she has actively participated in the cultural life of Moscow, and has excelled in numerous competitions, including the Rodion Schedrin Music Competition in Moscow (2008), the Romantic Music Festival for Young Musicians (Moscow, 2010) , the Maria Yudina International Music Competition in St. Petersburg (2015). She is actively involved in promoting Russian culture worldwide, and was elected as a representative of the Moscow Conservatory at the Kyoto International Music Festival (Japan, 2014). She regularly attends masterclasses and collaborates with artists such as Pavel Nersessian, Aleksandr Rabinovitch, Vazha Chachava, Aleksander Sandler, Haenk Gouttard, Pascal Nemirovsky and Wolfgang Redik. In the autumn of 2015 she became a soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music.
