Prima Vista Quartet


The Prima Vista Quartet is a French string quartet that was founded in 1997 in Clermont-Ferrand. It is now based in Paris. Since its foundation, it gave performances in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Poland, Russia, the United States, China and Africa.
Its repertoire ranges from the classics to the contemporary, with a predilection for unknown composers, especially George Onslow.
The Prima Vista Quartet also enjoys performing jazz, tango, klezmer, musical tales for children, and original scores for silent movies.
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Cine-concerts

The Prima Vista Quartet is currently the only string quartet to perform original scores to accompany silent films.
The cine-concerts are the most original aspect of this ensemble's repertoire which features the following titles :
Feature films :The General Nosferatu The Black Pirate Orphans of the Storm The Goddess Studies on Paris Two Stars in the Milky Way Wings The Great War :
  1. Women during the War
  2. Children during the War
  3. No Man's land The New Babylon
Short films :The Haunted House One Week The Immigrant A Film Johnnie Entrance of a Train in the Ciotat Station The Turn-of-the-Century Barber Cello First Prize The Policemen's Little Run Trip around a Star Peter Pan Handled Felix the Cat Dines and Pines The River Rhône Now you tell one Hallucinations of a Fireman
Baudime Jam composed or arranged the scores for all these cine-concerts.

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