Minetti Quartet
The Minetti Quartet is an Austrian string quartet based in Vienna . The name refers to a play by the writer Thomas Bernhard , who lived for a long time in Ohlsdorf , the birthplace of the two violinists.
Chamber music
The ensemble was founded in 2003 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has since performed in numerous well-known European concert halls and at renowned chamber music festivals. Examples are the concerts in London's Wigmore Hall , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Palau de la Música Barcelona, the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Berlin Philharmonic , the Cologne Philharmonic , the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , the Wiener Konzerthaus and Wiener Musikverein as well as the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg . Concert tours have also taken the string quartet to Japan , China , Australia , Argentina and the USA . The ensemble is now one of the leading Austrian string quartets of its generation.
The teachers and mentors of the Minetti Quartet were Johannes Meissl , Hatto Beyerle and the members of the Alban Berg Quartet . The ensemble also received artistic impulses from the Artemis Quartet and, as a member of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), from the Amadeus Quartet , the Quatuor Mosaïques and the Hagen Quartet .
The chamber music partners of the Minetti Quartet include Till Fellner , Martin Fröst , Sharon Kam , Tatjana Masurenko , Paul Meyer, Alois Posch, Thomas Riebl, Fazil Say , Matthias Schorn , Camille Thomas, Istvan Vàrdai, Jörg Widmann
Members
- Maria Ehmer violin
- Anna Knopp violin
- Milan Milojicic Viola , since 2011
- Leonhard Roczek violoncello
From 2003 to 2010 Markus Huber was violist with the Minetti Quartet.
repertoire
The repertoire of the Minetti Quartet includes string quartets and chamber music pieces from Viennese classical music to contemporary music.
Prizes and awards
- Grand Gradus ad Parnassum Prize 2003
- Herbert von Karajan Scholarship 2003
- Winner of the International String Quartet Competition "Franz Schubert and Modern Music" 2006 in Graz
- 1st prize at the International Rimbotti Competition for String Quartet 2007 in Florence
- Haydn Prize at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition 2007 in Vienna
- Appointment as "Rising Star" by the European Concert Hall Organization in 2008/2009
- START grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture 2010
Discography
- 2009 Joseph Haydn string quartets op.64/4, op.74/3, op.76/5 ( SCM Hänssler )
- 2012 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy String Quartets op.13 & 12 ( SCM Hänssler )
- 2013 Clarinet Quintets Mozart , Brahms , Sulzer (Avi-music)
- 2014 Ludwig van Beethoven string quartets op.18/4, op.95, op.18/2 ( SCM Hänssler )
- 2018 Franz Schubert String Quartet D 810 "Death and the Maiden", Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy String Quartet op. 80 (Hänssler CLASSIC / Profil Medien GmbH)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Minetti Quartet - Repertoire
- ↑ CD review on klassikinfo.de ( memento of the original from December 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ CD review on klassik-heute.com
- ↑ CD tip at br-klassik.de
