String quartet · Madrid

“intelligent and impeccable in its interpretation of the works, spanning diverse aesthetics and sonorities, with room for poetic abstraction, narrative evocation, melodism and timbral experimentation”

— Mikrokosmos047 · Adrián Rosado
Music of our time

Who we are

One voice for the music of our time

4Sonora is a Madrid-based string quartet dedicated to the recovery, experimentation, and dissemination of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, with a particular focus on Spanish and Latin American music.

2026–27

CNDM - Encuentros de Pamplona

2026–27

Teatros del Canal · Madrid

2026–27

Fundación Juan March · Madrid

2026–27

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando · Madrid

2026–27

Espacio Turina · Sevilla

“the instruments use timbre and time to achieve a texture that gives rise to an expressive spatialisation. The quartet received a magnificent performance by 4Sonora”

— Tomás Marco · Revista Scherzo

Four voices for the music of our time

Elina Sitnikava

Violin

Roman Kholmatov

Violin

Alfonso Noriega

Viola

Sara Chordà

Cello

4Sonora on video

Códices

4Sonora · 2022

Francisco Coll

Variaciones sulla notte

4Sonora · 2000

Alicia Díaz de la Fuente

The Labyrinth

4Sonora · 2003

Òscar Colomina i Bosch

Intermezzo

4Sonora · 2021

Mercedes Zavala

Paraíso perdido

4Sonora · 2024

Beatriz Arzamendi

Gaia’s Song

4Sonora · 2011

Tomás Marco

Moderato quasi lento

4Sonora · 1913

Mercedes de Argila

Sedimentos

4Sonora · 2025

Manuel Martínez Burgos

Cuarteto Op. 1 n.º 5

4Sonora · c. 1770

Manuel Canales

Thank you for joining us

Elina Sitnikava
Roman Kholmatov
Alfonso Noriega
Sara Chordà

The quartet, in pictures

4Sonora performs in the Musikagileak Series in the Basque Country

4Sonora performs in the Musikagileak Series in the Basque Country

The blog Mikrokosmos has published a review of our performance in San Sebastián as part of the Musikagileak Series…

Scherzo reviews our concert at Fundación Juan March

Scherzo reviews our concert at Fundación Juan March

The magazine Scherzo has published a review of the concert held on 11 February 2026 at Fundación Juan March,…

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