Koehne Quartet
The Koehne Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1987 in Vienna by Joanna Lewis and Ben Lea, Toby Lea and Michael Williams . Since 2013, Lewis Anne Harvey-Nagl ( violin ), Lena Fankhauser on viola and Melissa Coleman ( violoncello ) have been among its members. The quartet mainly interprets new music , but also moves across the boundaries of jazz and world music .
history
The string quartet was initially a student project and attended master classes with the Amadeus Quartet , Brodsky Quartet , Borodin Quartet , György Kurtág and the Alban Berg Quartet . The group interpreted their work in close cooperation with the respective composer; initially the quartet dedicated itself to the eponymous Graeme Koehne . In 1992 the company was re-established with Anne Harvey-Nagl, Margit Slosser and Anmari van der Westhuizen. In the mid-1990s, the line-up was changed again with Petra Ackermann (viola) and Melissa Coleman (cello).
The quartet worked with composers such as Friedrich Cerha , Kurt Schwertsik , Francis Burt , Balduin Sulzer , Thomas Pernes , Gerd Kühr , Thomas Larcher and Wolfgang Liebhart . Works by Samuel Barber , Werner Pirchner , Gerhard Wimberger , Nancy Van de Vate , Werner Schulze and Dimitris Mousouras will also be performed. The quartet also performed with James Blood Ulmer and worked with international jazz musicians such as Dave Liebman , Anthony Braxton , Georg Graewe , Max Nagl and Otto Lechner as well as artists from the world music scene such as Marcel Khalifé , Marwan Abado and Dhafer Youssef . It recorded works by Burt, Pernes, Liebhart, Hannes Raffaseder , Michael Amann , Peter Androsch , Bruno Strobl and Hermann Nitsch , but also by Wayne Horvitz , Robin Holcomb and Peter Herbert for sound carrier publications.
Web links
- Portrait (ORF)
- Web presence
- interview
- Koehne quartet at Discogs (English)