Artis Quartet
The Artis Quartet Vienna is an Austrian string quartet . Its members are Peter Schuhmayer (1st violin ), Johannes Meissl (2nd violin), Herbert Kefer ( viola ) and Othmar Müller ( violoncello ).
history
The Artis Quartet Vienna was founded in 1980 at the Vienna University of Music and studied in Vienna with Hatto Beyerle and Alfred Staar . In autumn 1984 the quartet went for a season after Cincinnati ( USA ) to act as carriers of the Friedlander Fellowship at the local university to study at LaSalle Quartet continue. The AQW was also a prize winner in the Cambridge , Yellow Springs and Evian competitions between 1983 and 1985 .
As a result, the four musicians started an international career that took them around the world. The quartet has given concerts in almost all well-known concert halls in Europe, but also played in Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall and the Tokyo International Forum (5,000 seats) in Tokyo and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The quartet also gives guest performances at many well-known music festivals around the world.
The quartet has had its own cycle in the world-famous Wiener Musikverein since 1988 .
Since 2003 Schuhmayer, Meissl and Kefer (1st and 2nd violin, viola) have been playing standing. This makes them one of the few string quartets that practice this type of concert presentation.
The Artis Quartet recorded over 40 CDs for Sony Classical, CBS-Sony, Orfeo, Koch / Schwann, Accord, ORF, Camerata Tokyo and Nimbus.
These recordings include works by the following composers: Haydn, Pleyel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Smetana, Dvořák, Weigl, Zemlinsky, Berg, Webern, Magnard, Dohnanyi, Kreisler, Wolf, Schulhoff, Wellesz, Müller-Hermann, Mittler, Zipper, Gielen, von Eine, Dünser, Eröd, Willi, Wisser.
World premieres of works by A. Zemlinsky, TG French, Gottfried von Eine, Otto M. Zykan, H. Eder, T. Larcher, R. Stuppner, T. Pernes, GE Winkler, Ian Wilson, H. Wisser, Ivan Eröd, W Kubizek, G. Schedl, AP Vargas, Richard Dünser and Alfred Huber.
Awards
- Grand Prix du Disque (1987)
- Alexander Zemlinsky Sponsorship Award (1997)
- Prix Caecilia (1987)
- Viennese flute clock (1991)
- Echo Classic (2000)
- Lully Award for Best Chamber Music Concert of the Season in New York City (2001)
- Indie Award (2001)
- Diapason d'or (1989 and 2008)
- Midem Classical Award (2009)
References
- ↑ http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/edito.php?ID_edito=31
- ↑ MCA winner 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 24th, 2009 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. (English)
literature
- Barbara Boisits: Artis Quartet. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .