Auryn Quartet
The Auryn Quartet , founded in 1981 , is an internationally renowned string quartet . The four founding members Andreas Arndt ( cello ), Stewart Eaton ( viola ) and the two violinists Matthias Lingenfelder (* 1959) and Jens Oppermann (* 1960) form the ensemble to this day.
history
According to their own statements, the musicians took the name of their quartet from the novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende , published in 1979 . Auryn, the Amulet of the Childlike Empress, fulfills every wish.
The year after it was founded, the ensemble successfully took part in the ARD competition in Munich and the international string quartet competition in Portsmouth . In the following years it was perfected through studies with the Amadeus Quartet in Cologne and the Guarneri Quartet in New York .
The performance practice of the Auryn quartet is characterized by a broad repertoire and international proffered rows of the chamber music literature , such as the performance of 68 quartets Haydn in Cologne and Padua and a Beethoven - cycle in London and Perugia 2010. In addition, numerous primary and premières contemporary composer.
The quartet has received numerous prizes and awards for its recordings, including the sponsorship award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in 1985 and the ECHO Klassik in 2009 for the chamber music recording of the year 17/18. Century . The ensemble received the 2011 German Record Critics' Prize for the complete recording of Joseph Haydn's quartets .
The members of the Auryn Quartet have been professors at the Detmold University of Music since 2003 .
Four outstanding instruments were made available to the quartet: Matthias Lingenfelder plays a Stradivarius from 1722 that belonged to Joseph Joachim , Jens Oppermann plays the Petrus Guarneri of the Amadeus Quartet, Stewart Eaton plays an Amati from 1616 ( Koeckert Quartet ) and Andreas Arndt the Niccolò Amati cello from Paul Hindemith's Amar Quartet.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ensemble Auryn Quartet
- ↑ Homepage Auryn Quartet (accessed on August 11, 2012)
- ^ Concerts Auryn Quartet
- ^ Repertoire Auryn Quartet
- ^ Auryn Quartet: Ensemble. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .