Galatea Quartet
The Galatea Quartet is a Swiss string quartet from Zurich . Since it was founded in 2005, it has consisted of Yuka Tsuboi and Sarah Kilchenmann ( violins ), David Schneebeli ( viola ) and Julien Kilchenmann ( cello ), and Hugo Bollschweiler has been a violist since mid-2013. After a short time, the quartet achieved several competition successes at the Concours de Genève 2006, the Migros Chamber Music Competition in Zurich and the International Chamber Music Competition in Osaka . Several radio recordings at DRS2 and Espace 2 .
Since then the quartet has developed a lively concert activity with tours a. a. in Poland, Albania, Italy, Spain, Japan, Egypt or India and at numerous festivals (Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam , Società del Quartetto Milano, Pablo Casals, Sion, Murten Classics, EuroArt Prague, Orlando Festival, etc.), plus numerous radio , Television and film recordings. The ensemble is now one of the leading young string quartets in Switzerland.
The musicians received musical impulses as scholarship holders of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) with personalities such as Hatto Beyerle ( Alban Berg Quartet ), Christoph Richter, Erich Höbarth or Johannes Meissl , and through work with Stephan Goerner ( Carmina Quartet ) or the Artemis Quartet in Berlin. The Galatea Quartet also performs regularly with musicians such as Shirley Brill, Daniel Zisman, Fabio di Càsola, Noëmi Nadelmann , Admir Doci, Gilles Vonsattel and others. a.) and also explores areas that exceed the classical quartet repertoire. So z. B. Projects with Jon Lord ( Deep Purple ), the Chinese singer Gong Linna or the writer Urs Faes . They are also involved in the To the Dark Side of the Moon project at the Rigiblick Theater , which combines the concept album The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, arranged for string quartet by Daniel Fueter, with a text by Ray Bradbury . Her debut album Bloch: Landscapes-Works for String Quartet was released on October 7, 2011 on Sony Classics with works by the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch .