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"Through music I crossed and left behind national boundaries. I’m not making a big political statement. But the reality is that if you give a child a ‘bigger stage’ (music), it’s a transformational experience."

Saleem Ashkar, Yorkshire Magazine, 2015

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"A young quartet is a chaotic mix of influences and aspirations which need to molded over time into a distinct and coherent voice. This process takes a great deal of time, sacrifice and patience, all of which are often in short supply in the most important years of a quartet's formation."

Cuarteto Casals, Fifteen Questions, 2017

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"Mine is not necessarily an instrumental way of thinking. It's not about which note sounds bad and how do you make it better. It's always about the phrase. How does a phrase have to be? And then you make it technically possible to get the phrase the way you want it to be."

Sharon Kam, The Irish Times, April 2005

"For me the String Quartet is the only ensemble in which sometimes you are right at the front of the texture and in the next bar you have to disappear completely. "

Axel Schacher / Belcea Quartet, The Strad, September 2019

"The thing that attracts me to conducting is that we get the chance to paint with an enormous brush. I play the violin as well, that is a much smaller paint brush. It’s still music, it’s still me, but the kind of colors that you can paint with an orchestra is incredible."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, London Symphony Orchestra Blog, December 2014

"Every pianist starts with an sound in their head. It doesn’t come from the fingers or the shoulders… But what’s also true is that very few people actually have access to an individual sound. Those are the people whom you want hear over and over again."

Elena Bashkirova, Piano News, January 2018

"It’s a tricky balance to respect the knowledge that we have now about the way they supposedly played in those times, and yet be able to express ourselves freely and respectfully."

Alisa Weilerstein, New York Times, April 2017

"You need to implement immediately the ideas you have inside. Don't think about how to place your fingers, then it won't work. It has to come automatically, so to speak. You have to watch what I'm doing, but you can't stop."

Miklós Perényi, Fono Forum, January 2018

"If the conductor likes the orchestra, and vice versa, and both are interested in trying something together, then we have it: the process of becoming more familiar with each other, the more we widen our world of sound."

Daniel Cohen, January 2020

"The hard part is not to prepare something; it’s to let the preparation go."

Erik Schumann / Schumann Quartett, Concerti, May 2017

Welcome BEJUN MEHTA!

With great joy, we welcome Bejun Mehta to our list. “Perhaps the most sophisticated and musically satisfying of today ́s countertenors” (Opera News, 2018) inspires all over the world singing the major roles of his repertoire as well as presenting his award-winning CD and concert programs ranging from baroque to contemporary music in all big concert halls.

In recent years, Bejun Mehta has also successfully made a name for himself as a conductor. In addition to his focus on working on the repertoire of the baroque and early classical periods with modern orchestras, his particular emphasis is on the combination between orchestra and voice.

With immediate effect, we will take over Bejun Mehta’s general management as singer and conductor – we are very much looking forward to an exciting joint path!

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Welcome JOHANNES DEBUS

With Johannes Debus another conductor is enriching our artists list. The Music Director of the Canadian Opera Company perceives it as very rewarding to have one foot on each continent.

He sees himself as a universalist, equally at home in Monteverdi, the Viennese School, Janáček, and the 20th-century repertoire. “I wouldn’t give up any of this musical variety,” Debus says. “If the boundaries of my language are the boundaries of my world, then every new piece is a passage to somewhere new.”

We are delighted to represent him for opera and concert in Europe, starting immediately.

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