Quatuor Molinari

Canada's Quatuor Molinari (or Molinari Quartet) has been one of the few string quartets in Canada to cultivate a specialty in music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The group has especially championed new Canadian music, commissioning new works and often performing and recording the string quartets of composer R. Murray Schafer. The Quatuor Molinari was formed in Montreal in 1997 by violinist Olga Ranzenhofer, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati who had studied with the noted American violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. All four members have played with prominent Canadian ...