Atrium String Quartet
The Atrium Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 2000 at the St. Petersburg Conservatory .
The members of the Atrium Quartet studied with members of the Taneyev Quartet, the Alban Berg Quartet , the Danel Quartet and the Vermeer String Quartet. From 2006–2007 they studied at the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam with Stefan Metz and in 2009 with Eberhard Felz at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin.
Concert tours led the Atrium Quartet a. a. to Great Britain, the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Italy, Denmark, France, Brazil, Japan and Hungary. In Germany, the ensemble has been a guest at the Beethoven Festival Bonn, the Heidelberg Spring, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Usedom Music Festival, the Traunstein Summer Concerts and the Mettlach Chamber Music Festival. In the current season, the Atrium Quartet is offering the audience, for the first time in the history of chamber music, a unique opportunity to experience all of Shostakovich's fifteen quartets in one day.
Members (since 2000)
First violin:
- Nikita Boriso-Glebsky , since 2017
- Sergey Malov , 2015–2017;
- Alexey Naumenko, 2000–2015;
Second violin:
- Anton Ilyunin, since 2000
Viola:
- Dmitry Pitulko, since 2004,
- Dmitry Usov, 2000-2004;
Violoncello:
- Anna Gorelova, since 2000
Prices
- 2001: 2nd prize in Moscow
- 2002: 2nd prize in Cremona and Weimar
- 2003: 1st prize and audience prize at the International String Quartet Competition in London.
- 2007: Grand Prix and prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work (Prix MMSG - Mecemnat Musical Société Generale), Bordeaux