STANISLAS QUARTET AND ENSEMBLE

Since its debut in 1984, the Stanislas Quartet, alone and as part of a larger group, the Stanislas Ensemble, has risen to prominence and become one of the more interesting french ensembles, notable for the quality of their interpretations as well as the originality of programming.

Nationally acclaimed in the festival of « Presences 94 » sponsored by Radio France - Paris, they have also performed in numerous festivals and concerts in France and abroad (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia, Northern and Southern America, Japan, Taïwan, Middle East, Africa). In March 96, the Stanislas Quartet made its debut in the USA (Washington DC, West Virginia and North Carolina), having great success with the public and press. Mark Carrington, in the Washington Post, described its performance as « particularly effective ». In July1998, the quartet was reinvited for a series of masterclasses, concerts and recordings in connection with the W.V. University.

Each year, they have a concerts-series in Nancy with an enthusiastic and ever increasing public. They play frequently throughout the region of Lorraine where they have given more than three hundred concerts for diverse audiences. The music of our time is at the centre of the ensemble's activities: to the extent that, in addition to numerous first performances of contempory works,the organisation of events such as the invitation to Nancy of Henri Dutilleux in 1996 and George Crumb in 1999 are of considerable importance. In May 2001 the swiss composer Klaus Huber has been present for a retrospective of his works, meetings and masterclasses.

The Stanislas Ensemble and Quartet has already recorded numerous compact discs, warmly received by international critics. The  CD released in May 2002 with works by George Crumb, Henri Dutilleux and Raymond Depraz, was acclaimed by the music magazine Diapason as being a "recording of reference" (October 2002). To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Joseph-Guy Ropartz in 2005, the Stanislas Quartet undertook the world premier recording of his six string quartet. The first CD, including quartets nr2 and nr3, has been published in March 2006 and was immediatly distinguished with a "10" by the magazine Classica-Répertoire. A first CD dedicated to Ropartz in 1999 has been already chosen by two of the principal french music magazines, Classica and Le Monde de la Musique, as the "CD of the Month" for september and October 1999. 

In July 2001, the quartet played for the first time in South America, giving three concerts at the Francia-Venezuela Festival of Caracas, followed by a tour of the main towns of the country.

In April 2006, the Stanislas Quartet  was for the first time in Russia (Volgograd, Novossibirsk, Perm and Moscow), and  was invited in October 2006 in residence at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (USA), where master-classes alternated with concerts in Greensboro and in other towns in North Carolina and in Virginia.

In July 2007, the quartet went back to South America, giving numerous concerts  in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Rosario and Cordoba), and in Brazil (Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Juiz De Fora, Uberlandia, Ouro Branco etc...)

Stanislas Quartet Artists

Laurent Causse, violin, received the « Premier Prix », a degree with highest honors, in violin   and chamber music from the   Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris. He worked with such artists as Régis Pasquier, Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Salvatore Accardo. From 1986 to 1989, he was first violinist with the Viotti Quartet and at present is   concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy, and teacher at the Conservatoire National de Région in Nancy.

Bertrand Menut, violin, started his musical studies in his hometown Brest (Brittany), before   moving on to Paris, where he studied with Pierre Doukan and Gérard Poulet, obtaining three gold medals.From 1991 to 1998 lead-violin in the "Orchestre Pasdeloup"   in Paris, and since 1999 member of the Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy.

Marie Triplet, viola, received a Médaille d'Or from the Conservatoire National de Région of Nancy,  studying later with Peter Oistresek in Düsseldorf, and Serge Collot in Paris. Now viola teacher  at the Conservatoire Régional du Grand Nancy

Jean de Spengler, cello, obtained a degree in cello and chamber music from the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris and studied cello at the Hochschule für Musik of Vienna with André Navarra, and chamber music with members of the Alban Berg Quartet His present position is principal cellist of the Orchestre Symphonique de Nancy.