Quatuor Fandango
Biography Quatuor Fandango
Quatuor Fandango
In 2009, four precociously gifted guitar students of the celebrated guitarist and teacher, Patrick Roux at the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau, decided to create the Quatuor Fandango. Inspired by their teacher who had himself founded the famed Canadian Guitar Quartet, the Quatuor Fandango have gone from strength to strength. They were recently chosen by Jeunesses musicales du Canada to participate in two provincial and national tours during the 2013-2014 season. The first tour, lasting six weeks in the autumn took them to Eastern Québec and the Maritimes while the second during the winter of 2014 took them to western Québec and Ontario during a four-week period.
The Quatuor Fandango perform a highly original, accessible and intriguing repertoire comprising works specifically composed for guitar quartet as well as enterprising arrangements and transcriptions of exiting musical masterpieces. Their programmes present a variety of musical styles and a great diversity of musical influences and inspiration including many works by established and emerging Canadian composers.
Quatuor Fandango are an exciting and dynamic ensemble, their performances including such works as Berimbao, by Jürg Kindell, which is influenced by African rhythms and using strings as percussion and Leo Brouwer’s urban landscape piece, Cuban Landscape as well as their teacher, Patrick Roux’s Tango Contretemps which incorporates elements of theatricality.
