Modern String Quartet
| Modern String Quartet | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Classical music , jazz |
| founding | 1983 |
| Current occupation | |
violin |
Jörg Widmoser |
violin |
Winfried Zrenner |
viola |
Andreas Höricht |
violoncello |
Thomas Wollenweber |
| former members | |
violin |
Holger Jetter (until 1989) |
violin |
Nicolas Tramitz (until 1991) |
violoncello |
Jost-H. Hecker (until 2015) |
The Modern String Quartet (MSQ) is a Munich string quartet that plays classical and jazz-related music.
General
The quartet had its origins in a commitment to free improvisation for a slide show.
The quartet has given over a thousand concerts worldwide and has presented itself at the Burghausen Jazz Week , the Viersen Jazz Festival , the Berlin Festival and other festivals in Tel Aviv , Nancy and Belgrade . It has recorded numerous CDs and worked with many musicians, such as in 1988 with Konstantin Wecker , Mercedes Sosa and Joan Baez .
The music is composed or arranged in-house. Improvisation is part of every performance.
CDs (selection)
- The Rite of Swing (2019)
- The Well-Tempered Clavier (2012)
- Fever (2008)
- Watermusic (2004)
- Modern String Quartet vs. Charlie Mariano (2002)
- Four Composers (1996)
- KITE - MSQ with John Kaizan Neptune (1993)
- Four Brothers (1992)
- JS Bach: Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (1994)
- MSQ plays Duke Ellington (1990)
- Jazz for string quartet (1988)
- Elephants and Strings (1986)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit: String Jazz ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ modernstringquartet.com: The Story ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
