Winner of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (2014), the Wigmore Hall London International String Quartet Competition (2012), and the International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg (2009), the Arcadia Quartet has quickly become one of the most spectacular ensembles of its generation.

Founded in 2006 at the “Gheorghe Dima” Academy of Music, later becoming graduates of postgraduate courses at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna and Alumni members of the European Chamber Music Academy, the quartet has performed all over the world. Since April 2015, the quartet has been in residence at the National Art Centre “Tinerimea Română” [Romanian Youth] in Bucharest, where it is still active, having collaborated with many world-renowned artists including Diana Ligeti, Amit Peled, Sarah Chang, Robert Levin, János Bálint, Cvartetul Belcea, etc.

The Arcadia Quartet began collaborating with the Chandos label in September 2017, with whom they released an album featuring the complete quartets of Béla Bartók. Recently, a special new project has taken shape, namely the recording of the 17 quartets composed by Mieczysław Weinberg. The first volume released in January 2021 won the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik award and was nominated for the ICMA 2022 awards, reaching the finals of the chamber music category. Volume 2, released in May 2022, is praised by the Financial Times, praising the first-class performance of the Arcadia Quartet, a finalist in the chamber music category for Limelight Recording of the Year 2022, and the third volume released in April this year received the Diapason d’Or award.

The Arcadia Quartet members’ desire to promote classical music at the highest level, combined with a desire to share their experiences with future generations of musicians, has given rise to the chamber music workshop, called Arcadia Chamber Music Classes, a series of yearly masterclasses dedicated to string chamber ensembles, offering professional guidance and support to young people.