France's Quatuor Modigliani ("Modigliani Quartet") has grown in visibility and significance since its founding in 2003. The group has begun to pass on its influences through its directorship of the revived Rencontres musicales d'Évian festival. The quartet was founded by four friends who had been students at the Conservatoire de Paris: violinists Philippe Bernhard and Loïc Rio, violist Laurent Marfaing, and cellist François Kieffer; Bernhard left the quartet in 2016, with Amaury Coeytaux replacing him as first violinist. The Quatuor Modigliani was signed to the roster of the Mirare label, releasing an album of Haydn string quartets in 2008, and has remained exclusively associated with that label. It released the album Portraits in 2019. The Quatuor Modigliani was heard on the album Ode à la nuit: Folles Journée 2023.