Weber Clarinet Quintet ConTempo Quartet Emma Johnson

ConTempo Summer Series
Carl Maria von Weber - Clarinet Quintet
Emma Johnson - Clarinet
ConTempo Quartet
www.contempoquartet.com
Bogdan Sofei & Ingrid Nicola violins
Andreea Banciu viola & Adrian Mantu cello
"The ABBA of the classical music"
Winners of 14 International Prizes

"Polished and professional group ... full of exuberance and with a fine sense of ensemble ... real sensitivity ... exceptional performance"
The Strad/ Wigmore Hall

ConTempo String Quartet has won a record of 14 International prizes in competitions such as London, Munich, Hamburg, Rome, Graz, Berlin, Bucharest & Prague and The Romanian Musical Critics Union Prize in Bucharest.


ConTempo has toured the world extensively,
performing at many major International festivals in Europe, Asia and North America .

They performed more than 1000 Chamber Music Recitals in venues and festivals such as: Carnegie Hall in NY, Wigmore Hall, Berliner Philarmoniker, Theatre Chatelet and Festival Clasique-au-Vert in Paris, Gedai University in Tokio, Opera House in Tel-Aviv, Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Palazzo Quirignale in Rome, .

ConTempo had the honor to be invited to perform in front of great world personalities such as the late
Pope John Paul II at Castel Gandolfo in Italy, for Prince Charles in UK (in London and Highrove) , for Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, the EU Ministers, the Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney and for the famous Hollywood actors Angelica Houston, Angela Lansbury, Martin Sheen and Merv Griffin.

Filmmaker Bob Quinn produced a documentary about ConTempo's residency in Galway, "ConTempo Goes West".

"At the end of this concert, I would like to offer my cordial thanks to the musicians of the Contempo Quartet, who with their sensitivity and skill have offered us a moment of deep aesthetic contemplation. The alternation of serene and lively, dramatic and nostalgic passages has been for all of us an opportunity for involvement and reflection. I wish the talented musicians a successful professional career and an even more satisfying human fulfilment." The Pope Giovanni Paolo II




" In the ConTempo's typical fashion, risks were taken, and unusual rewards achieved... the sense of something exceptional at work in the music was unmissable in this performance." The Irish Times " ... Amazing technique and rhythmic homogeneity ...Very impressive way to approach Enescu's quartet, an extremely difficult work, belonging to the first class quartets of the 20th century ... ConTempo succeeding to demonstrate this with great intensity and fervour." Süddeutsche Zeitung

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i just love listening to emma johnson play its soooooooo beautiful definetly an idol of mine