Guadix String Quartet Seminar
Coaching with Jonathan Brown, Cibrán Sierra and Antonio Gervilla — and plenty of time shared with the other quartets.
LuscofuscoQuartet
Right before the note fades
The Quartet
A young ensemble on the rise, the Luscofusco Quartet is a Spanish-Portuguese group based in Belgium, building a growing concert career with performances at Bozar Hall in Brussels, the Au Bain Miry Festival, the Zomerfabriek in Antwerp and the Lauden series at St Bavo’s Abbey.
Founded in 2024, the quartet studies under Pieter Jansen at the Ghent Conservatory and Guy Danel at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, and currently takes part in the Orpheus Institute’s Advanced Chamber Music Course. Their name, luscofusco, describes the fleeting hour when light gives way to shadow — that suspended instant just before the last ray of sun disappears. It’s this space between states that the quartet keeps returning to, both in their name and in their art.
The quartet has worked closely with members of the Cuarteto Casals, Cuarteto Quiroga and Kandinsky Quartet — Jonathan Brown, Cibrán Sierra and Antonio Gervilla — at the Guadix International String Quartet Seminar. They have also taken part in masterclasses with the Vision String Quartet and the Barbican String Quartet. At the FAME Institute String Quartet Seminar in Skopje, alongside the Quartet Vivancos, they gained their first experience of professional studio recording.
The quartet is not interested in staying in one lane: it has already worked with experimental pop musicians and visual artists, driven by the conviction that art has no real borders between genres or disciplines.
Portuguese violinist João (b. 2001) completed his Master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in 2026, studying with Jolente De Maeyer and Benjamin Braude. He previously earned his Bachelor’s degree (2022) and a Master’s in Music Education (2024) at ESMAE in Porto, under Evandra Gonçalves, and in 2019 won first prize at the National Violin Competition in Porto.
Since 2022 he has played with the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra and the Beiras Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductors such as Christian Zacharias, Vassily Sinaisky and Baldur Brönnimann. He has also performed with the Remix Ensemble alongside Ilya Gringolts, and in the 2025-2026 season he joined the BEYRA project, giving the Portuguese premiere of Philippe Boesmans’ opera “Julie”.
Chamber music is at the heart of his path. As a founding member of Quarteto Metamorfose, he won prizes at the Gilberta Paiva National Music Competition, Showcase@Fundão and the Convimus International Music Festival, and he has worked with Florian Schötz (Goldmund Quartet), violist Maxim Rysanov and Quarteto de Cordas de Matosinhos. In 2025 he joined the Luscofusco Quartet.
Born in Spain in 1999, Cristina began her higher studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Oviedo with Yuri Nasushkin, and went on to complete her Master’s degree with Lisa Jacobs at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 2026. Masterclasses with violinists such as Michael Barenboim, Michael Foyle and Tatiana Samouil have further shaped her playing.
After a season in the Orchestral Academy of Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen (2025-2026), she now plays regularly with the orchestra. In Spain she has played with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias and Oviedo Filarmonía, and she has been a member of youth orchestras including Youth Orchestra Flanders, the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia, EGO and OSCyL Joven. Along the way she has worked with conductors such as Gustavo Gimeno, Dima Slobodeniouk, Roberto González Monjas and Nuno Coelho.
She is a founding member of the Luscofusco Quartet.
Ignacio, a Spanish violist born in 1998, studied at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona with Yuval Gotlibovich and the Cuarteto Casals. He then completed his Master’s degree with Mathis Rochat at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he is now continuing his postgraduate studies. Masterclasses with Gérard Caussé, Joaquín Riquelme, Gareth Lubbe, Tatjana Masurenko and Jonathan Brown, as well as the Summer Academy in Cervo and the European Masterclasses in Stockholm, have broadened his playing.
His orchestral experience includes the Barenboim-Said Foundation’s Orchestral Studies Academy in Seville, the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía, the Academy of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and the Ceuta International Symphony Orchestra, with performances at venues such as the Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada under conductors including Pablo Heras-Casado, Hossein Pishkar, Lucas Macías and Pedro Halffter.
One of the founding members of the Luscofusco Quartet, he plays a viola commissioned from Pierre Smets in Brussels in 2025.
The youngest member of the quartet, cellist Jorge was born in Spain in 2004 and began his studies in 2012 at the Xan Viaño Professional Conservatory of Music in Ferrol, Galicia, first with Pablo Ponga Suero and from 2014 with Emma Urango Muelas. Since 2022 he has studied with Judith Ermert at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree with distinction and is now pursuing his Master’s.
He has reached four competition finals, receiving a Special Mention from the jury at the first Soncello Contest for Young Cellists, organised by the Association of Galician Cellists, and third prize at its second edition. Lessons with cellists such as Pablo Ferrández, Johannes Moser, Maria Kliegel, Arto Noras and Raúl Mirás have enriched his playing, and his orchestral experience includes the Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia, the Joven Orquesta de Canarias, EGO, the Joven Orquesta de León and the Mahler Student Festival Orchestra.
Part of the Luscofusco Quartet since its founding, he plays a cello by an unknown German maker from around 1900.
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