Noies String Quartet

In 2023, Noies Quartet brought four women together for their passion of playing String Quartet. Since then, they have been creating their own character as a group and developing their repertoire, thanks to the guidance of NSKA. They have attended masterclasses by Marc Danel and Gilles Millet (Quatuor Danel) and Simone Gramaglia (Quartetto Di Cremona). Among their performances, a highlight was to perform in the String Quartet Biënnale Amsterdam 2024 for the opening concert of the Belcea Quartet.

Coming from Italy, Portugal and Spain, Noies is currently based in between the Netherlands and Belgium.

  • 1st Violin

    Irene Piazza is an Italian violinist based in the Netherlands. A graduate of the Conservatory of Amsterdam in the class of Vera Beths and a former member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Irene has recently won a position as first violin tutti in the Residentie Orkest in The Hague. Also passionate chamber musician, she is currently first violin of Noies String Quartet and member of Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. In 2023, she recorded the debut album of WORDS, experimental ensemble led by Matteo Paggi. Irene plays a violin by L. Houniet and an L. H. Gillet bow, both courtesy of the Dutch Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.

  • 2nd Violin

    Natália is a Portuguese violinist based in the Netherlands since 2021. She finished her Master degree in Violin in the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles with Distinction. In 2021, Natália won a full scholarship by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, allowing her to continue her studies at Codarts, Rotterdam. Natália has been freelancing in professional orchestras in the Netherlands and Belgium such as: Radio Filharmonisch Orkest; Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest; Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; Noord Nederlands Orkest and Phion Orkest as the 2nd Violins Leader. During her studies at Codarts, Natália did an internship with Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and Sinfonia Rotterdam.

  • Viola

    Born in Florence in 1999, Viola Innocenti is a creative and curious international artist. For the season 2022-23 she was academist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic orchestra, playing in both chamber music and orchestra. She is currently remplaçant in Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, Phion and Metropole Orkest. She is also active in different ensembles, such as Doelenensemble, Ciconia Consort, Noies Quartet and often collaborates with the Balfolk ensemble Boccadoro. From October 2022 she’s member of Batavierhuis, an artist house based in Rotterdam. At the age of 19, she obtained her Bachelor of Music degree in violin in “Scuola di Musica di Fiesole” (IT) under the guidance of Lyubov Kuzma and Volodymyr Kuzma. In 2020, she moved to Rotterdam (NL) where she continued her studies with a Master of Music Degree in viola in the class of Roman Spitzer.
    She have been invited to different festivals and academies such as Schiermonnikoog Festival, Moritzburg Festival Academy, Festival Musica sull’Acqua, Berlin Opera Academy, Entroterre Festival in Bertinoro, IMOC Festival in Chianciano, Bergen Nasjonale Opera Academy and Bregenz Festival Academy.

  • Cello

    Coming from a musical background in Spain, Mar graduated in Queen Sofia School of Music in Madrid under the tuition of Jens Peter Maintz and Fernando Arias. She then completed a master in the Norwegian Academy of Music of Oslo with Torleif Thedéen. Together with her interest in baroque cello, she then got engaged in the orchestra world as an academist in the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023 she won the audition as a tutti member in Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and persues her chamber music passion together with Noies String Quartet and ensemble JUGLAR.