Chiaroscuro Quartet Announces New Member

Violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux has now joined the string quartet  

As the newest member of the award-winning Chiaroscuro Quartet, the French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux will succeed Pablo Hernán Benedí, who has been a member of the group since 2010.

Saluste-Bridoux will now perform alongside the other group members violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Emilie Hörnlund, and cellist Claire Thirion.

The winner of both the Young Classical Artists Trust Grand Prize and Concert Guild International Competition in 2021, Saluste-Bridoux was also named a Classic FM Rising Star in 2022. 

Her recent engagements include debuts with the City of Birmingham and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestras, plus appearances at Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and the Australian Chamber Music Festival.

Formed in 2005, the Chiaroscuro Quartet is known for performing music of the classical and early romantic periods on gut strings and with historical bows. The group was a prizewinner of the 2013 German Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk/Musikfest Bremen and received Germany’s prestigious CD award, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2015. The ensemble records exclusively for BIS Records.

Saluste-Bridoux will be joining the quartet’s upcoming performances including a Wigmore Hall residency, and concerts at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Pierre Boulez Saal, Edinburgh International Festival, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. 

“We are hugely looking forward to our new adventures with Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux,” the Chiaroscuro Quartet wrote in the press release. “She is an exceptional musician who brings light, vigor, and tremendous creativity to everything she touches. We are also incredibly grateful to Pablo Hernán Benedí for the many wonderful years we spent together - without him, the quartet wouldn’t be where it is today. We wish him all joy and success in his further endeavors.”