Arod Quartet

Jordan Victoria, violin; Alexandre Vu, violin; Tanguy Parisot, viola; Jérémy Garbarg, cello

The Arod Quartet came to international attention when they won First Prize at the 2016 ARD International Music Competition in Munich and went on to serve as a BBC New Generation Artist from 2017 to 2019. An exclusive recording artist for Erato Warner Classics, the Arod has released a trio of acclaimed albums since their debut Mendelssohn disc in 2017. Most recently, the Arod released a Schubert album featuring Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” together with two other works. Recent and upcoming performances include in their hometown at the Philharmonie de Paris, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Oji Hall of Tokyo, and the Berlin Philharmonia. Jordan Victoria and Alexandre Vu play composite Stradivari and Guadagnini violins on loan from the Beare’s International Violin Society. The group takes its name from Legolas’ horse in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy; in Tolkien’s mythic Rohirric language, Arod means “swift.”