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Quatuor Ébène: New Year => New Photos

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"What is fascinating about a string quartet? The fact that there’s no conductor. Watching the four players on stage, you can see the communication, the tension, the pushback and the intimacy. In the age of Facebook and Instagram, when we only seem capable of sharing virtual intimacy, that’s very attractive."

Raphaël Merlin / Quatuor Ebène, Die Zeit, January 2017

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Quatuor Modigliani takes on artistic direction of the “Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition”

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"Having come from the Soviet Union, if you knew the number of pianos I had to try – nothing scares me if something goes wrong […] Most of the venues I’m playing at I know the pianos. Some are nice, others I must struggle with. But if there’s a problem, I can fix it myself."

Alexander Melnikov, The Daily Gazette, January 2017

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Ariane Matiakh: New Chief Conductor of the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reutlingen

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"In the end - and this I learned from Harnoncourt - one cannot be certain about anything, it remains unprovable. The only option is to feel it, to create something beautiful with taste. This he taught me - to look the human side. "

Ariane Matiakh, VAN Magazin, September 2018

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Welcome: Sitkovetsky Trio!

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"The desire to be loved can become a real enemy. It can very much stand in our way when it comes to reaching a truly free interpretation, where you say, 'Bach is like this for me. I love you guys, but I will not compromise, because something more important is at stake.'"

Jean-Guihen Queyras, VAN, December 2017

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Gramophone Award for Piotr Anderszewski

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"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

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Our next Generation: Simply Quartet!

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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

"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

"Performing complete cycles of all Beethoven sonatas has changed my life. One starts to look for connections; one needs two years to get close to the musical language. I've found connections encompassing all sonatas. Pablo Picasso expressed it well: I do not search – I find."

Saleem Ashkar, Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 2016

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

Erik Schumann / Schumann Quartett, Concerti, May 2017

"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

Quatuor Ébène: New Year => New Photos

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Quatuor Modigliani takes on artistic direction of the “Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition”

The “Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition” will take place from 9th to 15th May 2022 in the Auditorium of the Opéra National de Bordeaux. Applications open until 14th of January 2022:

https://quatuorsabordeaux.com/en/2022-competition/

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Ariane Matiakh: New Chief Conductor of the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Reutlingen

Ariane Matiakh will take up her post as Chief Conductor at the beginning of the 2022/23 season in Reutlingen, but will already be involved in the planning for the coming seasons. She is the first woman to hold the position of artistic direction of the orchestra.

https://www.wuerttembergische-philharmonie.de/musik/video/

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Welcome: Sitkovetsky Trio!

We are pleased to represent the wonderful Sitkovetsky Trio worldwide as the first piano trio since the founding of the Impresariat Simmenauer office.

The Sitkovetsky Trio’s thoughtful and committed approach to music has established them as the leading piano trio of the present day over the past 15 years.

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Gramophone Award for Piotr Anderszewski

Congratulations! Piotr Anderszewski was awarded a “Gramophone Award” in the category “Piano” for his album “JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Excerpts)” (Warner Classics):

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/gramophone-classical-music-awards-2021/piano

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Our next Generation: Simply Quartet!

The heart of the Impresariat beats for the string quartet. With great interest we dedicate ourselves to the next generation and are therefore very happy to welcome the Simply Quartet to our artist roaster!

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Elena Bashkirova