Arcadia Quartet

Romania's Arcadia Quartet came on the scene with a host of awards in the late 2000s and early 2010s decades. The group specializes in music of the region but performs a wide range of music. Beginning in 2015, the Arcadia Quartet became the ensemble-in-residence at the Tinerimea Roman National Art Centre in Bucharest, Romania. Its collaborators include prestigious musicians in both Eastern and Western Europe. The Arcadia Quartet released its debut album, featuring the two string quartets of Leoš Janáček, in 2013, following it up with a recording of Mendelssohn and Brahms. Signed to Chandos, the quartet released an album of Bartók's complete string quartets in 2018. The Arcadia Quartet returned in 2021 with the first volume of a series devoted to Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 17 string quartets; that series reached its fifth volume in 2025.