Final concert
by Engegård Quartet, Maxwell Quartet, Olli Mustonen, Naomi Shaham,
Engegård Quartet
Arvid Engegård (violin)wds
Amanda Håøy Horn (violin)
Juliet Jopling (viola)
Jan Clemens Carlsen (cello)
Maxwell Quartet
Colin Scobie (violin)wds
George Smith (violin)
Elliott Perks (viola)
Duncan Strachan (cello)
Wolfgang Amadeus 2
Mozart String Quartet No. 2
Olli Mustonen
Piano Quintet
Darius Milhaud
La création du monde for piano quintet
Olli Mustonen
Nonet No. 1
The festive final concert of the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam brings together the Norwegian Engegård Quartet and the Scottish Maxwell Quartet: two well-kept secrets in string quartet country, fully deserving of a place in the spotlight. They shine in an original work: the First nonet by Finnish composer and pianist Olli Mustonen. This original mind performs his own Piano Quintet with the Engegård and Milhaud’s La création du monde in an arrangement for the same instrumentation.
Olli Mustonen’s extraordinary musicality cannot be praised enough. As a composer, he treads his own path, writing in a contemporary idiom on which there is no stamp. The pianist Mustonen leaves no listener unmoved; his eccentric, human playing and his great stage presence make a concert a true experience.