Quintetto Anemos

The Wind Quintet “Anemos” was founded in France in 2010, with the purpose of both performing the mainstream repertoire and of rediscovering forgotten works for this ensemble, with a particular focus on twentieth-century music.

All of its members are musicians active at the forefront of European musical life; they regularly perform as soloists, in chamber music groups and in some of the most important European orchestras, including the Orchestre Nationale de l’Opéra de Paris, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Wiener Konzertverein Orchester, the Haydn Akademie, the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Teatro Regio di Parma, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale di Firenze, I Solisti Veneti, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Nextime Ensemble, the Orchestre Colonne et Pasdelo, etc... The Anemos Quintet is mainly interested in the tradition of the historical French wind quintets, being particularly inspired by the the epoch-making Quintette à vent de Paris, whose rich library they inherited, and for which many twentieth-century composers wrote important works, which presently deserve a renewed interest. Following in their footsteps, and with a continuing attention to the new trends in classical music, The Anemos Quintet has commissioned new works to some young talented composers worldwide. Among them, are Alessio Elia, Salvatore Di Stefano, Leon Gurvitch, Patrizia Montanaro, Kathryn Potter, Stefano Franceschini, Marco Lombardi, Nigel Keay, and others. In the spring of 2017, the German publisher Impronta printed the arrangement of Alfredo Casella’s Pupazzetti, dedicated to Anemos. The Quintet had premiered the work inside the MART Museum of Rovereto, in the Fortunato Depero Hall, dedicated to the artist who had created the mechanical puppets inspiring Casella’s work. From its foundation, the ensemble has performed intensively throughout Europe, in the Castle of Tarascon (Provence), at the Gozo International Festival (Malta), at the Hotel de Gallifet in Paris and at the Concerti del Quirinale of Radio RaiTre.