The Chiaroscuro Quartet, which plays on on gut strings and with period bows, has had a change of violinist.
The Spaniard Pablo Hernán Benedí is leaving after 14 years. He is replaced by French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux.
The other members are violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Emilie Hörnlund, and cellist Claire Thirion.
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