Kiss quartet

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The Kuss Quartet ( English Kuss Quartet ) with Jana Kuss ( violin ), Oliver Wille (violin), William Coleman (viola) and Mikayel Hakhnazaryan ( violoncello ) is a Berlin- based string quartet . It was founded in 1991 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin by the two violinists of the ensemble and has been playing in the current line-up since 2008.

history

The Kuss Quartet teachers included Walter Levin , Christoph Poppen , Eberhard Feltz and the Alban Berg Quartet . In the 2001/02 season the quartet accepted an invitation from Paul Katz of the Cleveland Quartet to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston. There they completed a Graduate Diploma Program for string quartet. The ensemble made its debut in 1993 at the palace concert given by Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .

Awards

The quartet won international prizes at the competition in Bubenreuth (1997), the Karl Klingler competition (Berlin, 1998) and the international string quartet competition in Banff (Canada, 2001). In June 2002 the Kuss Quartet was awarded the 1st prize at the International Competition for String Quartet Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia / Italy. At the same time as the Borciani competition, the ECHO (European Concert Halls Organization) decided in favor of the Kuss Quartet as the German artist in the Rising Stars program, as a result of which the quartet made its debut in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Cologne Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus in the 2003/04 season , Carnegie Hall, Athens Concert Hall and Birmingham Symphony Hall . The quartet was also funded by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

Since then it has been one of the established ensembles of its generation and has given concerts in Europe, the USA, South America and Japan. The Kuss Quartet played with chamber music partners such as the singer Mojca Erdmann , the cellist Miklós Perényi , the clarinetist Sharon Kam and Paul Meyer. It has developed special concert formats such as the Classic Lounge in the Watergate Club, the talk concerts "Explica" and programs combining literature and music with the actor Udo Samel .

Discography

  • Oehms Classics: Mendelssohn / Mozart String Quartets (2006)
  • Sony Classical: Bridges - Renaissance and Modernism (2007)
  • Sony Classical: Haydn: String Quartets
  • Onyx: Schubert / Berg (2011)
  • Onyx: Thème russe (2012)
  • Onyx: Schubert String Quintet in C major (2013)
  • Onyx: Brahms / Schönberg (with Mojca Erdmann, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discussion concerts - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Archived from the original on August 31, 2014 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Robin Elliott: Banff International String Quartet Competition ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Reggio Emilia: 2002 - Sesta Edizione - I Teatri. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  4. ^ Kuss Quartet - Fellowship Winner 2003 - Borletti-Buitoni Trust. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Berliner Festspiele - Musikfest Berlin: Kuss Quartet / Mojca Erdmann. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Onyx CDs by Kuss Quartet. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .