Our projects
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Parallel 40
Parallel 40 is an ode to discovery and connection, collecting and arranging music from many different countries and regions found along the 40th Parallel North. Starting in Menorca and heading east, for a full turn around the globe, we will discover music and stories from Menorca, Italy, Greece, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, North Korea, China, Japan, the US, Portugal and Spain.
Life and Death – La Serenissima
The Belinfantes are fascinated by ‘ghost composers’ – those who may not themselves have written
for string quartet, but whose music is imbued in the music of others.
We thread together a programme inspired by Mahler’s music and philosophy on the world. His great love of Nature, his exploration of his local cultural routes in Bohemian folk music, his love of people and wanting to protect the world.
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Ellipse
The ‘Ellipse’ is a timeless, never-ending orbit through space. Sometimes the planets and the moons magically align, creating distant, ancient music, which you can only hear faintly at first. The ‘transatlantic ellipse’ feels like the magical alignment of two continents, separate, but forever united by the Atlantic Ocean. Our aim, as the Belinfante Quartet, is to create musical ellipses, whereby one breath can spark a continuum of unified sounds and gestures.