Apollon Musagète Quartet
The Apollon Musagète Quartet (abbreviated: AMQ) is a Polish string quartet that was founded in Vienna in 2006 and became internationally known in 2008 when it won the ARD music competition in the string quartet category. The ensemble plays the common quartet literature from Johann Sebastian Bach to modern times, with special emphasis on Polish music.
Members
Name and education
The quartet was named after the Greek god Apollon , the protector of the arts and "leader of the muses " (Greek Apollon musagetes , French Apollon musagète ). A ballet composition by Igor Stravinsky also bears the name Apollon musagète .
The Apollon Musagète Quartet studied with Johannes Meissl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the European Chamber Music Academy . The members of the Alban Berg Quartet were also among the ensemble's mentors .
activities
Concerts
The ensemble made its debut in the Wiener Musikverein (2009), in the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic (2010), in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (2011) and in New York's Carnegie Hall (2012).
The quartet appears regularly in prominent chamber music cycles all over the world, also plays in extended chamber music formations and the like. a. with Gabriela Montero , Martin Fröst , Jörg Widmann , Angelika Kirchschlager , Alexander Lonquich . The ensemble also cooperated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Dresden Philharmonic , the Heidelberg Philharmonic, the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum and other ensembles in the performance of works for string quartet and orchestra.
In the crossover area, the ensemble worked intensively with Tori Amos , who invited the quartet to participate in their album Night of Hunters, published by Deutsche Grammophon , and the subsequent European and American concert tour.
Discography
- Multitude , Decca Records , Universal Music Polska
- OehmsClassics debut , Oehms Classics
- Russian Soul , Oehms Classics
Participation in albums by other artists:
- Night of Hunters by Tori Amos, Deutsche Grammophon
- Conjunctions - Synápsies by Konstantia Gourzi, NEOS
- 57th ARD Music Competition, 2008 Prize Winner , BR-Klassik ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Compositions
Collective compositions for string quartet by the Apollon Musagete Quartet:
- A Multitude of Shades for string quartet (Musikverlag Doblinger)
- Multitude (Hommage a Witold Lutoslawski) (Doblinger Music Publishing House)
Awards
- 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award
- 2013 Paszport Polityki in the serious music category
- 2012–14 BBC New Generation Artist
- 2012 (Nov.) New Artist of the Month from Musical America Worldwide
- 2010/11 Appointment as Rising Star by the European Concert Hall Organization
- 2010 Ö1 Pasticcio Prize (Prize of the cultural broadcaster Ö1 and the newspaper Der Standard ) for the OehmsClassics debut album
- 2009 Młoda Polska - Promotion Prize of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
- 2008, 2009 Esterházy sponsorship award
- 2008 1st prize and three special prizes at the 57th ARD International Music Competition
- 2008 1st prize at VE Rimbotti Competition in Florence
- 2007, 2008 Josef Windisch Prize
- 2007 special prize at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna
- 2007 Bartók Prize and Playel Prize of the ISA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ BR-Klassik ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Apollon Musagète Quartet at Oehms Classics.
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Announcing the Night of Hunters tour on the Harrison & Parrott website
- ^ [1] Review of the album in Polityka (in Polish)
- ^ [2] Apollon Musagete Quartet on the website of Doblinger Musikverlag Vienna
- ↑ [3] Announcement of the winners in 2014 on the Borletti-Buitoni Trust website (in English)
- ^ [4] Apollon Musagete Quartet on the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation
- ↑ [5] Review of the debut concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on www.musicalamerica.com (in English)
- ^ [6] Announcement of the Ö1 Pasticcio Prize Winner for the month of Aug 2010
- ↑ [7] Website of the competition (in English)
