Armida Quartet
| Armida Quartet | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin |
Berlin , Germany
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| Genre (s) | Classical music |
| founding | 2006 |
| Website | armidaquartett.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Martin Funda | |
violin |
Johanna Staemmler |
| Teresa sponge | |
| Peter-Philipp Staemmler | |
The Armida Quartet , named after the opera of the same name by Joseph Haydn , is a German string quartet . The ensemble includes Martin Funda (violin), Johanna Staemmler (violin), Teresa Schwamm (viola) and Peter-Philipp Staemmler (violoncello).
history
The quartet was founded in Berlin in 2006 and studied with members of the Artemis Quartet . Master courses with the Alban Berg Quartet , Guarneri Quartet and Arditti Quartet rounded off the training.
The four musicians became known through their success at the ARD music competition in 2012, in which the Armida Quartet was awarded 1st prize, the audience prize and six other special prizes. In September 2014 the quartet was accepted into the BBC series "New Generation Artists". In the 2016/2017 season, the quartet will present itself across Europe as part of the “Rising Stars” series of the European Concert Halls (ECHO).
The Armida Quartet also played at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival , the Davos Festival and the Heidelberg Spring . In 2014 the quartet also went on a concert tour to China, Taiwan and Singapore for the first time.
The four musicians of the Armida Quartet have been teaching chamber music at the Berlin University of the Arts since October 2012 . The musicians of the Armida Quartet are also in international demand as guest lecturers; They have already given master classes a. a. in Singapore and at the Mozart Festival in Augsburg.
Awards
In 2011 the Armida Quartet won first prize and the audience award at the Concours de Genève . The ensemble previously received various grants, including from the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation and the Schierse Foundation Berlin. The quartet's debut CD was released in 2013 with works by Béla Bartók , György Ligeti and György Kurtág and was shortly thereafter included in the list of the best for the German Record Critics ' Prize. The quartet is the 2014 NORDMETALL ensemble award winner at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival.
Discography
- 2013: Ursula Mamlok : String Quartet No. 1 (1962) (Naxos)
- 2013: Bartók - Kurtág - Ligeti (CAvi)
- 2015: Dvorak - Scharwenka (with Ewa Kupiec , Randall Meyers)
- 2015: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (CAvi Music)
- 2016: Beethoven - Shostakovich (CAvi Music)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New Generation Artists: Armida Quartet. BBC Radio 3, accessed September 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Best list 1-2014. German Record Critics' Prize, accessed on September 2, 2016 .