Carnegie Hall

The love and passion of early music and music from all horizons led Anna Besson, Louis Creac’h, Robin Pharo, and Jean Rondeau to create Nevermind in 2013. Together, their mission is to share the works they love with a wide and varied audience, championing and transcending the quartet repertoire (flute, violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord) of the 17th and 18th centuries. Nevermind’s numerous concerts have only reinforced this conviction, and the friendship shared by these four musicians emanates through their passion and sincere love of playing, as evinced in the striking collaborations of their performances.

At the core of Nevermind’s 2024–2025 season are J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for Baroque quartet for the first time by the group. It performs this seminal Baroque masterpiece at the Philharmonie de Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, Musikfest Bremen, Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, Opéra de Rennes, Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Seville’s Espacio Turina, Bergen International Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, and Haapsalu Early Music Festival. A highlight of spring 2025 is Nevermind’s North American tour, which includes featured appearances at Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, San Diego Early Music Society, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Vancouver Recital Society. Nevermind also continues to showcase the work of 17th-century composer Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre with concerts at the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo and the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.

In 2021, Nevermind released its third album on the Alpha/Outhere label, which delved into the quartets of C. P. E. Bach. The group’s previous album, Quatuors Parisiens, was dedicated to the work of Telemann, and was released in 2017 following a residency at the Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes. Its first album, Conversations, was released in 2016 with the aim of providing insight on French quartets from the first half of the 18th century and highlighting almost completely unknown pieces composed by two virtuoso violinists: Jean-Baptiste Quentin and Louis-Gabriel Guillemain.

Nevermind delved into the world of contemporary music for the first time in 2019 with Philippe Hersant’s La harpe de David. The work was performend at the International Festival of Sacred and Baroque Music of Froville, Festival de Saintes, Festival de La Chaise-Dieu, and Festival Sinfonia en Périgord.