The Avos Piano Quartet was formed in 2007 at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. They immediately attracted international attention by winning the two most important chamber music competitions in Italy (Members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva): thePremio Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence, and the Premio Trio di Trieste International Competition, where they also received two other prizes: the Amedeo Baldovino Prize for their interpretation of J.Brahms (Quartet op.25), and the Public Prize given by the italian newspaper "Il Piccolo di Trieste". In 2010, the Chigiana Academy of Siena gave them two more prizes: the "Premio Monte Dei Paschi" and their prestigious "Diploma of Honor".

The Quartet has studied with Dario De Rosa, Renato Zanettovich, Maureen Jones, Enrico Bronzi, Felix Ayo, Alfonso Ghedin, Rocco Filippini, and the Alban Berg Quartet at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz of Cologne (Germany). They have performed alongside artists such as Natalia Gutman, Eliso Virsaladze, Ebène Quartet, Belcea Quartet and Alban Berg Quartet.

The Quartet has performed in the most important theaters in Italy and abroad (Teatro "La Fenice" of Venice, Teatro Filarmonico of Verona, Teatro Coccia of Novara, Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, Teatro Verdi of Trieste, Teatro Comunale of Florence, Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Sala Chigi Saracini of Siena, Roma Tre University, Tuscia University of Viterbo, Musica Insieme of Bologna, Societ Fioravanti of Prato, Teatro Mancinelli of Orvieto, Teatro Rendano of Cosenza, Sicily and others). The Quartet has toured in Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Romania and Japan, where they toured more than 5 times since 2009 and organized Master classes at Yonago, Kurayoshi and Tottori, Japan.

They have also recorded for RAI (National Italian Television). Their discography includes Mozart's quartets, Brahms's quartets, Schumann's quartet, C.Saint-Saens's quartets, Faur�'s op.15, Dvorak's op.87, Mahler, Schnittke, Walton and Brotons, for Azzura Music and Brilliant Classic.

October 2015

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