Fortepiano

Alexander Melnikov

Conductors

Anja Bihlmaier
Daniel Cohen
Johannes Debus
Ariane Matiakh
Bejun Mehta
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Singers

Günther Groissböck
Bejun Mehta

Mandolin

Clarinet

Recitation

The young Impresariat

ARD-Competition Award-Winning Quartet 2022
Musethica

String Quartet

Arditti Quartet
Belcea Quartet
Brooklyn Rider
Cuarteto Casals
Jerusalem Quartet
Leonkoro Quartett
Novus String Quartet
Quatuor Ébène
Quatuor Modigliani
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Schumann Quartet
Simply Quartet

Ensemble

Sitkovetsky Trio

Violin

Isabelle Faust
Vadim Gluzman
Gidon Kremer
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Cello

Miklós Perényi
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Julian Steckel
Alisa Weilerstein

Piano

Piotr Anderszewski
Saleem Ashkar
Elena Bashkirova
Alexander Melnikov
Nicolas Namoradze

Fortepiano

Alexander Melnikov

Conductors

Anja Bihlmaier
Daniel Cohen
Johannes Debus
Ariane Matiakh
Bejun Mehta
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Singers

Günther Groissböck
Bejun Mehta

Mandolin

Clarinet

Recitation

The young Impresariat

ARD-Competition Award-Winning Quartet 2022
Musethica

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International ARD Music Competition 2022 – String 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

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Quatuor Ébène & Belcea Quartet at the Vienna Konzerthaus

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"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

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Quatuor Ébène starts its 1st season as “Quatuor en résidence à Radio France”

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"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

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Ariane MATIAKH – Debut at the BBC PROMS

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"When playing in a quartet, one of the most important things is to respect all the individual personalities of each member; they are part of the identity of the group."

Loïc Rio / Quatuor Modigliani, Februar 2019

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

Erik Schumann / Schumann Quartett, Concerti, May 2017

"If you know one room in an apartment, but not that the apartment has seven other rooms, you won’t even understand the room you’re in."

"Framed by music, language emerges more clearly, framed by language, music shines deeper. Heart and mind are addressed and revitalized in a beautiful, alternating balance, in short: one gives the other a stage."

Martina Gedeck, Concerti, September 2018

"A pianist's right hand never has to argue with her left, whereas in a quartet, the integrity of each voice places a unique burden on the others. From the horizontal perspective we are four distinct and highly opinionated voices, from the vertical we are a whole, four interlocking and interdependent voices working in concert."

Cuarteto Casals, 2018

"I'm looking for a distillation. This point is the most the sublime, when nothing is superfluous."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Concerti, April 2015

"The thing that captivates me about conducting is that we have the chance to paint with a huge brush. I also play the violin, which is a much smaller brush. It's music too, it's still me, but the kind of colors you can paint with an orchestra are incredible."

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

International ARD Music Competition 2022 – String Quartet

On September 10th at 10:15pm the final round of the competition in Munich came to an end. Congratulations to the Barbican Quartet on winning 1st prize as well as the prize for the best interpretation of the contemporary piece. We are looking forward to working with this ensemble for the prize winners’ tour next March.

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Quatuor Ébène & Belcea Quartet at the Vienna Konzerthaus

From this season onwards Quatuor Ébène & Belcea Quartet will share a joint series at the Vienna Konzertaus.

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Quatuor Ébène starts its 1st season as “Quatuor en résidence à Radio France”

In their hometown will present their œuvre to the on-site audience as well as to the radio audience in a multitude of concerts during the next 3 seasons.

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Ariane MATIAKH – Debut at the BBC PROMS

“With her wonderfully refined ear for the score’s textures and colours” Ariane Matiakh concludes her 21/22 season at the BBC PROMS, listen here.

Read the full Guardian review here.

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Fortepiano

Alexander Melnikov

Conductors

Anja Bihlmaier
Daniel Cohen
Johannes Debus
Ariane Matiakh
Bejun Mehta
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Singers

Günther Groissböck
Bejun Mehta

Mandolin

Clarinet

Recitation

The young Impresariat

ARD-Competition Award-Winning Quartet 2022
Musethica

String Quartet

Arditti Quartet
Belcea Quartet
Brooklyn Rider
Cuarteto Casals
Jerusalem Quartet
Leonkoro Quartett
Novus String Quartet
Quatuor Ébène
Quatuor Modigliani
Quatuor Van Kuijk
Schumann Quartet
Simply Quartet

Ensemble

Sitkovetsky Trio

Violin

Isabelle Faust
Vadim Gluzman
Gidon Kremer
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Cello

Miklós Perényi
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Julian Steckel
Alisa Weilerstein

Piano

Piotr Anderszewski
Saleem Ashkar
Elena Bashkirova
Alexander Melnikov
Nicolas Namoradze

Fortepiano

Alexander Melnikov

Conductors

Anja Bihlmaier
Daniel Cohen
Johannes Debus
Ariane Matiakh
Bejun Mehta
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider

Singers

Günther Groissböck
Bejun Mehta

Mandolin

Clarinet

Recitation

The young Impresariat

ARD-Competition Award-Winning Quartet 2022
Musethica

Quatuor Ébène

Leonkoro Quartett

Quatuor Modigliani

Quatuor Van Kuijk