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List Of String Quartet Ensembles
This is a list of recognized string quartets (i.e. groups of musical performers), current or past, in alphabetical order. It does not include the names of musical quartet compositions. A * Abramyan String Quartet * Aeolian *Aizuri Quartet *Alban Berg * Alberni *ALEA *Alexander * Allegri *Amadeus *Amar *Amati * American SQ * Amphion String Quartet * Amsterdam String Quartet * Ancora String Quartet * Annex String Quartet * Apple Hill String Quartet * Arcanto Quartet *Arditti Quartet * Ariel String Quartet * Aron Quartet *Arpeggione * Artaria String Quartet *Artemis Quartet *Atom String Quartet * Atrium String Quartet * Audubon Quartet *Australian String Quartet * Aviv String Quartet B * Badke Quartet *Balanescu Quartet *Barcelona *Bartók Quartet *Barylli Quartet * Bastiaan Quartet *Beethoven Quartet * Béla Quartet *Belcea Quartet *Berkshire String Quartet * Bessler Quartet * Blair Quartet * Bohemian Quartet *Bond *Borodin Quartet *Borromeo String Quartet * Boston String Quartet * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Quartet
The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists, a violist, and a cellist. The string quartet was developed into its present form by composers such as Franz Xaver Richter, and Joseph Haydn, whose works in the 1750s established the ensemble as a group of four more-or-less equal partners. Since Haydn the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form; writing for four instruments with broadly similar characteristics both constrains and tests a composer. String quartet composition flourished in the Classical era, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert each wrote a number of them. Many Romantic and early-twentieth-century composers composed string quartets, including Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Hill Center For Chamber Music
The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music is a center of chamber music performance and teaching, founded in 1971 and situated on of fields and woodlands in Nelson, New Hampshire, in the United States. History The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music was founded in 1971. The Apple Hill String Quartet was founded in 2007, performing both traditional and new music. In 2015, the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music won the "CMAcclaim Award" from Chamber Music America Chamber Music America (CMA) is an American non-profit organization that provides small ensemble professionals with access to a variety of professional development, networking, and funding resources. CMA's regular initiatives include grants, awards, .... About It is stewarded today by the organization's executive director, Javier Caballero, and ensemble-in-residence, the Apple Hill String Quartet. These professional musicians present concerts and educational workshops throughout the world and, during the summer, teach a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badke Quartet
The Badke Quartet is a British string quartet. Founded in 2002 at London's Royal Academy of Music, it regularly performs at leading venues throughout the UK, Ireland and the rest of Europe. In 2014, the quartet was appointed quartet in residence at Royal Holloway University of London. From 2005 to 2009 the Quartet held the Senior Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. The members of the quartet are Charlotte Scott and Emma Parker, violins, Jon Thorne, viola, and Jonathan Byers, cello. The quartet has worked with some of the world's greatest string quartets and studied with Gabor Takács-Nagy at IMS Prussia Cove and members of the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne. Edward Bhesania of The Strad magazine wrote that "A melt-in-the-ears quality ... made the atonality of the Britten less of a challenge and the Haydn that much sweeter". A review in ''de Volkskrant'' wrote that the group's playing was "of the utmost delicacy. The response from the hall: applause, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aviv String Quartet
The Aviv String Quartet was founded in Israel in 1997, and has performed internationally for over 15 years. Among the quartet's various awards is the DaimlerChrysler Grand Prize at the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition Musica Viva was founded in 1945 by Romanian-born violinist Richard Goldner, with the aim of bringing chamber music to Australia. The co-founder was a German-born musicologist, Walter Dullo. At its inception, Musica Viva was a string ensemble perf ... and top prizes at the Bordeaux and Schubert Competitions. The Aviv Quartet has recorded 3 discs of Shostakovich on Dalia Classics (available on iTunes and emusic) and 2 Naxos discs of Hoffmeister and Schulhoff. Recent highlights include a complete Shostakovich cycle at the 2007 Verbier Festival, debuts at the Zurich Tonhalle and Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts and return visits to Wigmore Hall. ;Members: *Violin I: Sergey Ostrovsky *Violin II: Philippe Villafranca *Viola: Noemie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian String Quartet
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) is a chamber music group founded in 1985 and based at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. It delivers an artistic program of performances, workshops, commissions, digital content and education projects across Australia and abroad. The quartet performs on a matched set of string instruments hand crafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.1743-1784 in Italy. The earliest of these is a cello (c. 1743), and a violin (1748-49), both made in Piacenza. The viola (1783) and another violin (1784) were made in Turin. The ASQ regularly tours Australia and the world. The current members arDale Barltrop(violin)Francesca Hiew(violin)Christopher Cartlidge(viola) anMichael Dahlenburg(cello). Guest artists have included pianists Angela Hewitt, Angela Lam and Piers Lane, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, clarinettists Michael Collins and Ashley Smith, violist Brett Dean and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. In the media In 2014-15, a documentary ''H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audubon Quartet
The Audubon Quartet (1974-2011) was an American string quartet based at residencies at Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania (1974-1979) and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia (1980-2001). Description The Audubon Quartet was an internationally acclaimed American classical string quartet that came into existence in 1974, through the Young Artist Program at SUNY-Binghamton. The YAP was directed by violinist Peter Marsh of the Lenox String Quartet. History The original Audubon Quartet was co-founded in 1974 by violinists Gregory Fulkerson, Janet Brady, violist Lawrence Bradford, and cellist Clyde Shaw. Former founding members Janet Brady and Lawrence Bradford are now deceased. ee www.audubonquartet.com During the nearly four-decade history of the Audubon Quartet, there were multiple personnel changes, with the final membership including violinists Ellen Jewett and Akemi Takayama, violist Doris Lederer and cellist Clyde Shaw. Violinist David Ehrlich joined the Audub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrium String Quartet
Atrium String Quartet is a Russian string quartet and one of the leading young ensembles. Quartet founded in 2000 in St Petersburg. Atrium Quartet is the prize-winner of several International Competitions including First Prizes of IX London International String Quartet Competition in 2003 and VII Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2007. Recordings (EMI, Zig-Zag TerritoiresOclassica Columna Musica, Profil Haenssler) of the quartet include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ..., Tchaikovsky, Yuri Falik and Jordi Cervelló (his "A Bach" and "St Petersburg" quartets dedicated to the members of the Atrium Quartet). In 2013 Quartet performed all 15 quartets by Dmitry Shostakovich in one single da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atom String Quartet
Atom String Quartet is a string quartet that specializes in jazz, and is the first such band in Poland. In June 2011 the quartet’s album “Fade in” was released, which was a live concert that was recorded on Radio Katowice. It received a “Fryderyk” in “Jazz debut” category. Current members * Dawid Lubowicz - violin * - violin * Michal Zaborski - viola * - cello Discography * Fade In (Polskie Radio Katowice - 2011) * Fade In (Kayax - 2012) * Places (Kayax - 2012) Video recordings * Atom String Quartet Live in Skwer (TVP Kultura TVP Kultura is the first TV theme channel to be run by the Polish public broadcaster TVP. It was launched on 24 April 2005 and is dedicated to arts and culture. Every day of the week, the channel concentrates on other disciplines; e.g., cinema, ... - 2010) Awards External links * Atom String Quartet on Facebook {{Authority control Musical groups established in 2010 Polish jazz ensembles String quartets 2010 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemis Quartet
The Artemis Quartet is a German string quartet, founded in 1989 in Lübeck, and now based in Berlin. The quartet is named for the Greek goddess of hunting and the wilderness. History The first members of the Artemis Quartet, Wilken Ranck, Isabel Trautwein, Volker Jacobsen, and Eckart Runge, met as students in Lübeck. Heime Müller replaced Isabel Trautwein in 1991. For personal and health reasons, Wilken Ranck left the quartet in 1994, and Volker Jacobsen and Heime Müller left at the end of the 2006/07 season. Natalia Prishepenko, the subsequent first violinist of the quartet, resigned after 18 years of membership in the ensemble in 2012. Newer members were Gregor Sigl (2nd violin), the violist Friedemann Weigle (until his death in July 2015) and the Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika (1st violin). In 2016, Anthea Kreston joined as the group's new second violinist and toured with the quartet until 2019. In April 2019, violinist Suyoen Kim and cellist Harriet Krijgh joined th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artaria String Quartet
The Artaria String Quartet (originally the Artaria Quartet of Boston) is an American string quartet based in Minnesota and now in residence at Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline University. Previously the Quartet was in residence at Viterbo University and Boston College. Originally formed in Boston, the quartet was mentored by members of the legendary Budapest, La Salle, Kolisch, and Juilliard quartets. Artaria centers on string quartet performance and education. It is committed to presenting inspiring live performances, to mentoring string players of all ages, and to illuminating the world's great repertoire of chamber music to a broad audience. . Members *Ray Shows, violin *Nancy Oliveros, violin *Annalee Wolf, viola *Patricia Ryan, cello History of Artaria The Artaria Quartet of Boston was formed at Boston University in 1986 by Raphael Hillyer and mentored by Eugene Lehner. Lehner was their primary teacher and actually named the ensemble. The group was also coached by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arpeggione Quartet
The Arpeggione Quartet is a French string quartet, led by Isabelle Flory (violin), with Nicholas Risler (violin), Patrick Dussart (viola), and Marie-Thérèse Grisenti (cello). The quartet has played all over the world including performances at London's Wigmore Hall, the Musée d'Orsay, Opéra Bastille and Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, and recently at the Musique-Cordiale festivals in the Var, France and Britain. It has starred at major international festivals including the Salzburg, the Lockenhaus, the Schloss-Elmau (Germany), the Wiener Klassisch and the Ottawa "Strings of the Future" Festival, as well as at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. In 2005, Margaret Fingerhut played César Franck's passionate Piano Quintet with the quatuor at the Conway Hall The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aron Quartet
The aron quartet is a string quartet ensemble which was founded in 1998 by Ludwig Müller, Barna Kobori, and Christophe Pantillon, four musicians working in Vienna. Their artistic careers have been decisively influenced by the members of the Alban Berg Quartet as well as by and Heinrich Schiff. Further decisive impulses for her musical career came from Isaac Stern, Max Rostal, William Primrose, Mischa Maisky, Ralph Kirshbaum and Sandor Végh. The aron quartet also performs together with artists like Oleg Maisenberg, Bruno Canino, Philippe Entremont, Wenzel Fuchs, Sharon Kam and members of the Alban Berg Quartet. In 2002, the aron quartet was a guest in the cycle of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Wiener Konzerthaus. History In the founding year, the Vienna Debut took place, which was well received by the public and press. Since then - also in collaboration with Heinz Holliger, Heinrich Schiff, as well as members of the Amadeus, LaSalle and Alban Berg Quartets - a wide-ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
