Asasello Quartet
The Asasello Quartet is a classical string quartet from Cologne that was founded in 2000. The repertoire includes string quartets and chamber music pieces from Viennese classical music to contemporary music, with a high proportion of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
overview
| Asasello Quartet | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | String quartet |
| founding | 2000 |
| Website | http://asasello-quartett.eu/ |
| Current occupation | |
violin |
Rostislav Kozhevnikov |
viola |
Justyna Śliwa |
violin |
Barbara Streil |
violoncello |
Teemu Myöhänen |
| former members | |
| Wolfgang Zamastil (violoncello 2010–2014) Andreas Müller (violoncello 2003–2010) Elias Grandy (violoncello 2000–2003) |
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Founded in Basel on the initiative of Walter Levin, the quartet received the finishing touches from the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne and Chaim Taub in Israel. In 2003 they received first prize in the Migros Culture Percentage Competition in Zurich. Since completing their studies in Cologne in 2007, the quartet has played in Germany and internationally, including at the Cologne Music Triennale, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and at numerous festivals.
The quartet has been grappling with music from the ensemble members' countries of origin since 2009 in the Paysages project . The recordings for the project can only be heard on the Internet. In 2010 there was a cyclical performance of all Mozart quartets in Venice. In its adopted home of Cologne, the Asasello Quartet has its own series of concerts entitled 1: 1 - Have you heard? and was awarded the Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors for this commitment in 2010 . The artists deal with new concert formats, the combination of classical string quartet with other arts, from dance to film to staged concerts.
The name of the quartet refers to a character from the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and thus to the demon Asasel .
Prizes and awards
- Sponsorship award at the 7th International Chamber Music Competition in Bubenreuth 2001
- 1st prize in the Migros Culture Percentage competition , Zurich 2003
- Recognition award from the Rentsch Foundation 2003
- 2nd prize at the 2004 German University Competition
- Scholarship from the Dörkens Foundation 2007
- International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg 2009
- Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors 2010
Discography
- 2005 Ludwig van Beethoven Op 18/6, Rostislav Kozhevnikov String Quartet # 3, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Op. 12
- 2007 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy op.13 , G. György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András op.13 , J. Josef Haydn op.76/5
- 2009 Franz Schubert Death and the Maiden , Alfred Schnittke String Quartet # 3 (CAvi-music)
- 2009 Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn string quartet in E flat major; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy String Quartets in A minor op.13 and E flat major op.12 (CAvi-music)
- 2013 Anton Webern Sechs Bagatellen (Blinker - Brand for recent items) vinyl only
- 2013 Paysages ( Genuin classics ) digital only
- 2013 Real Time Michael Jarrell Time Fragments ; Conlon Nancarrow String Quartet # 3; Rolf Riehm Tempo strozzato ; Michael Growe Artwork (Genuin classics)
- 2014 Melancoly Ernest Chausson ; Alexander Grechaninov ; Walter Rabl; Guillaume Lekeu ; Joseph Canteloube ; Paul Hindemith ; Richard Strauss ; Adolf Busch ; Max von Schillings ; Johannes Brahms with Lucia Duchonova and Ulrike Payer (Capriccio)
- 2014 Gradients of Detail, Chiyoko Szlavnics (World Edition)
- 2014 Marmarai - Oriental Contemporary Atac Sezer Subject & Flow ; Matthias Pintscher Study IV for Treatise on the Veil ; Ahmed Adnan Saygun String Quartet # 1 (GENUIN Classics)
Web links
- Works by and about Asasello Quartet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official homepage of the Asasello Quartet
- Hear and see the PAYSAGES project
Individual evidence
- ^ Asasello Quartet - Repertoire on asasello-quartett.eu, accessed February 14, 2017
- ^ Morton Feldman 2nd string quartet in the Musikfabrik Cologne . Bad Blog of Musick (blog) February 6, 2010. Retrieved February 14, 2017
- ^ London String Quartet Foundation on the Asasello Quartet
- ↑ CD reviews at Musical Pointers
- ↑ CD review at RONDO. The classic & jazz magazine