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Banff International String Quartet Competition 2019 winners announced!
In an unprecedented decision, the jury of the 13th Banff International String Quartet Competition awarded 2 quartets with the first prize this year: awardees are the Marmen Quartet from London together with the Viano String Quartet from Canada/USA.
The concerts of the winner's Europe tour will be split between the two and before long the schedule listing which quartet will play which concerts will be determined.
Created in 1983, the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) has since become recognized as one of the world’s leading international music competitions. Within a period of six days ten ensembles present themselves in front of a highly specialized jury and an enthusiastic audience. Being awarded a first prize in Banff is often the starting point for a flourishing carreer of a young string quartet.
Opus Klassik 2019 for the Signum Quartett
The Signum Quartett has won an Opus Klassik 2019 in the cathegory Best Chamber Music Recording String Quartet for its Schubert-CD Aus der Ferne (From Afar) on the lable Pentatone.
The quartet presents on this CD a combination of string quartets with lieder arranged for string quartet by violist Xandi van Dijk and hence shows how Schubert's instrumental and vocal music cross-pollinate each other.
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Next events
The Nash Ensemble of London 28.11. Homburg 30.11. Bensheim Azahar Ensemble 03.12. Lausanne Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig 04.12. Munich with Ragna Schirmer 06.12. Bayreuth with Ragna Schirmer 08.12. Worms with Ragna Schirmer 09.12. Heinsberg with Ragna Schirmer 12.12. Vienna with Lauma Skride 14.02.2020 Holzminden with Clara Dent Salaputia Brass 06.12. St. Ulrich/Gröden 07.12. Schwäbisch Hall 08.12. Gernsbach 05.01.2020 Arnstein 11.01.2020 Lippstadt 12.01.2020 Borken Reinhold Friedrich 07.12. Kassel with Sebastian Küchler-Blessing 18.-24.01.2020 Aarau 27.01.2020 Zurich Signum Quartett 11.12. London 21.01.2020 Gevelsberg 23.-26.01.2020 Heidelberg 29.01.-01.02.2020 Amsterdam 08.02.2020 Eching Szymanowski Quartet 04.01.2020 Lucerne Viano String Quartet 11.01.2020 Hamburg 12.01.2020 Paris 13.01.2020 Bonn 15.01.2020 Rheda 17.01.2020 Esch-sur-Alzette 18.01.2020 Wittlich 19.01.2020 Heppenheim 20.01.2020 Bremen 22.01.2020 Berlin 24.01.2020 Brussels Jenaer Philharmonie 12.01.2020 Wolfenbüttel Rolston String Quartet 12.01.2020 Paris 14.01.2020 Brussels 15.01.2020 Paris 17.01.2020 Munich 18.01.2020 Aalen 19./20.01.2020 Wuppertal Dover Quartet 15.01.2020 Mannheim 16.01.2020 Paris 17.01.2020 Halifax 18.01.2020 Sheffield 19.01.2020 London 20.01.2020 London 22.01.2020 Ettelbruck 23.01.2020 Essen 26.01.2020 Ittingen 28.01.2020 Maribor 30.01.2020 Blaibach Busch Trio 22.01.2020 Solingen 16.02.2020 Marburg Marmen Quartet 12.01.2020 Paris 26.01.2020 Amsterdam 01.02.2020 Tegernsee 04.02.2020 Basel 05.02.2020 Nuremberg 07.02.2020 Ulm 08.02.2020 Bruchsal 09.02.2020 Fulda 11.02.2020 Brixen 12.02.2020 Merano Juilliard String Quartet 27.01.2020 Amsterdam 28.01.2020 Vienna 29.01.2020 Amsterdam La Venexiana 28.01.2020 Vevey Daniel Ottensamer 08.02.2020 Zurich daniel ottensamer music 09.02.2020 Düsseldorf Cédric Pescia 12.02.2020 Marseille 16.02.2020 Brussels 29.02.2020 Magdeburg -
New CDs
Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipizig
"Cosmopolitan Mendelssohn": Works by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Volkmann, Donizetti, Gade (Klanglogo)
Among our artists you will find chamber music, inlcuding duos, trios, string quartets, wind quintets, brass ensembles, mixed ensembles, as well as orcehstras, Early music ensembles, soloists, trumpet, strings, piano and harpsichord), conductor. Artists are Duo Friedrich, Duo Stark, Vienna Piano Trio, Busch Trio, Trio Stark, Brentano String Quartet, Dover Quartet, Juilliard String Quartet, Marmen Quartet, Rolston String Quartet, Signum Quartet, Szymanowski Quartet, Viano String Quartet, Winner of the International String Quartet Competition in Banff, Azahar Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Orchstra Brass, WorldBrass, Salaputia Brass, The Nash Ensemble of London, Jena Philharmonic, Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini, La Venexiana, Nuria Rial & LaBarocca Milano, Nuria Rial & Cornets Noirs, Bob van Asperen, Hélène Schmitt/ Ensemble Luceram, Reinhold Friedrich, Peter Bruns, Tedi Papavrami, Cédric Pescia and Rinaldo Alessandrini.