Founded in 2012, after just two years, the Quartetto Guadagnini became the winner of the Piero Farulli Prize, part of the XXXIII Franco Abbiati Award.


The Guadagnini has already performed in the most important concert halls in Italy for prestigious concert seasons, including the Società del Quartetto di Milano, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro “La Fenice” in Venice, Stradivari Festival in Cremona for the inauguration of the new Arvedi Auditorium of the Museo del Violino, Unione Musicale in Turin, Società Umanitaria, Bologna Festival, Musica Insieme Bologna, MiTo Settembre Musica, Amici della Musica in Padua, IUC in Rome, Lucca Classica, Ravenna Festival, Ravenna Musica, Associazione Scarlatti in Naples, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, Camerata musicale barese, Amici della Musica in Palermo, and in major concert halls in France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Japan, China, South America, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.


In 2015, it performed with pianist Beatrice Rana at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris, where it was invited the following year as an ensemble in residence, premiering two works dedicated to the quartet by Silvia Colasanti and Domenico Turi.
In 2016, the quartet toured nationally under the promotion of CIDIM, debuted at Teatro La Pergola in Florence for the Amici della Musica, and at the Festival dei 2Mondi in Spoleto as co-protagonists in the performance of Tre risvegli, a new work by Silvia Colasanti with a text by Patrizia Cavalli, directed by Mario Martone, featuring actress Alba Rohrwacher in the lead role. That same year, it was chosen by the Stauffer Foundation in Cremona to represent Italian excellence in China at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, where it also held masterclasses and performed in several concerts.


Among its numerous artistic collaborations, the quartet has worked with artists such as Louis Lortie, Beatrice Rana, Avi Avital, Enrico Bronzi, Giovanni Gnocchi, Danusha Waskiewicz, Federico Colli, Krzysztof Jablonski, and others. In the field of music dissemination, the quartet collaborates with Giovanni Bietti, Sandro Cappelletto, and Oreste Bossini.

The Quartetto Guadagnini has recorded for Tactus the works Mercutio by composer Paolo Cavallone and For Five... by Raffaele Bellafronte in quintet with guitarist Davide Di Ienno.
In November 2017, it released a CD with the Amadeus magazine dedicated to Brahms and Dvořák, and in 2022, for Brilliant Classics, it released a disc dedicated to composer Wolf-Ferrari, along with pianist Costantino Catena, which received critical acclaim and enthusiastic reviews.


Winner of international awards, the quartet has completed a training cycle at the “W. Stauffer” Academy in Cremona, studied with Hatto Beyerle, the historic violist of the Alban Berg Quartet, and participated in several sessions of the ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy), founded and directed by Beyerle. It has also taken lessons with Maestro Patrick Jüdt and attended advanced quartet courses by Maestro Günter Pichler at the Chigiana Academy in Siena and ProQuartet in Paris.


The quartet has appeared on RAI 5 in the show Inventare il tempo and on RAI 3 in Musica da Camera con vista alongside Corrado Augias and Giovanni Bietti in the show Visionari. It is a regular guest on radio programs dedicated to classical music such as RADIO3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Classica, RSI – Radio della Svizzera Italiana, and RAI Cultura.


The Quartetto Guadagnini is an “Artist in Residence” at Lucca Classica and Roma Sinfonietta.


All members are individually involved in teaching at the Conservatories of Cesena-Rimini, Genoa, and Pesaro. The quartet also regularly holds masterclasses in Italy and abroad and is a guest faculty at the Conservatorio del Tolima in Colombia.


The Quartetto Guadagnini plays four modern instruments: Fabrizio plays a Marino Capicchioni violin built in Rimini in 1962, Cristina plays a Lorenzo Frignani violin made in Modena in 2024, while Matteo and Alessandra play two instruments by the Brescian luthier Filippo Fasser – a viola from 2012 and a cello from 2016.


The Quartetto Guadagnini is an endorser of Jargar Strings, Denmark.