Aris Quartet
The Aris Quartet is a string quartet with members Anna Katharina Wildermuth (violin), Noémi Zipperling (violin), Caspar Vinzens (viola) and Lukas Sieber (violoncello).
History and activities
The ensemble was founded in 2009 on the initiative of the chamber musician Hubert Buchberger (Buchberger Quartet). The members were between 15 and 18 years old at the time and all of them were young students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main . They didn't know each other back then. Started as an experiment, the Aris Quartet soon embarked on an international career. The musicians have been New Generation Artists of the BBC since autumn 2018 . The quartet continues to play in its original line-up. The name of the ensemble is made up of the last letters of the first names of the members.
For the first few years, the Aris Quartet was looked after by his mentor Hubert Buchberger, and from 2015 the musicians began studying with Günter Pichler ( Alban Berg Quartet ) at the escuela superior de música reina sofía in Madrid. The training was supplemented by artistic impulses from the Artemis Quartet and the music teacher Eberhard Feltz. The Aris Quartet now plays internationally at major music festivals and in concert halls. The Konzerthaus Berlin , the Alte Oper Frankfurt , the Liederhalle Stuttgart , the Wigmore Hall in London or the Laeiszhalle Hamburg are venues for the Aris Quartet. The ensemble gives around 90 concerts per season.
Prizes and awards
- 2012: 1st prize "International Johannes Brahms Competition", Pörtschach (Austria)
- 2013: 1st prize "5th European Chamber Music Competition “in Karlsruhe
- 2014: 1st prize “Lenzewski Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music” in Frankfurt
- 2014: 1st prize “International August Everding Music Competition” for string quartet in Munich
- 2016: 1st prize, as well as all special prizes at the “7. International Joseph-Joachim Chamber Music Competition ”in Weimar
- 2016: Chamber Music Prize from the Jürgen-Ponto Foundation
- 2016: 2nd prize, ARD international music competition , as well as the audience prize, Osnabrück Music Prize, special ProQuartet and special Genuin Classics.
- 2016: 1st prize in the international competition of the “Irene Steels Wilsing Foundation” in Berlin
- 2017: Supersonic Award from the music magazine pizzicato (Luxembourg) for the CD release Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartets op. 59/3 and op.131
- 2018: New Generation Artists of the BBC
- 2018: Supersonic Award from the music magazine pizzicato (Luxembourg) for the new CD release with works by Shostakovich a. Schubert
Discography
- 2018 String quartets by Shostakovich and Schubert ( GENUIN classics in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk )
- 2017 String quartets by LvBeethoven (GENUIN classics)
- 2016 Maximum Reger DVD cooperation (Fugue State Films)
- 2016 string quartets by Zemlinsky and Bertók (Telos music)
- 2015 String quartets by Haydn, Reger and Hindemith (Telos music)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: The Aris Quartet: The courageous four | BR classic . November 28, 2017 ( br-klassik.de [accessed October 19, 2018]). The Aris Quartet: The Courageous Four | BR-Klassik ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Aris Quartet. Retrieved on October 19, 2018 (German).
