KBR Lunchtime Concert

Quartetto Goldberg

Jingzhi Zhang, violin
Giacomo Lucato, violin
Matilde Simionato, viola
Martino Simionato, cello

Mendelssohn – Puccini – Schulhoff

For the final concert of 2025, KBR will welcome the Quartetto Goldberg, an ensemble whose name echoes J. S. Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations. Violinists Jingzhi Zhang and Giacomo Lucato, violist Matilde Simionato and cellist Martino Simionato are currently pursuing their training at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, with which KBR has enjoyed a long-standing collaboration. On the programme: the Five Pieces (1924) by Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, Giacomo Puccini’s melancholic Crisantemi (1890), and the monumental String Quartet Op. 44 No. 2 by Mendelssohn, composed and premiered in Leipzig in 1837.

We would like to thank:

Our structural sponsors – Belfius & Proximus.

The Foundations – Baillet Latour Fund, Foundation Futur21, King Baudouin Foundation, Guttman Collection, Aureus –, the corporate partners – Immobel, Galileo Global Advisors, Iscal, LMNO – all the Maecenas and those who prefer to remain anonymous.

Thank you also to our public support – Belspo, the « Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles », the « Province du Brabant Wallon », the « Commune de Waterloo » & alle spelers van de Nationale Loterij. & tous les joueurs de la Loterie Nationale.