Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 2002 and has since won a number of international awards.

The quartet is named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was abducted by the Nazis in 1941 and murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , and consists of first violin Veronika Jarůškova, second violin Eva Karová, viola Pavel Nikl and cello Peter Jarůšek. The second violin was played by Kateřina Gemrotová (on the CD Janáček String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” and Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 2, “From the Monkey Mountains”) and Marie Fuxová (on the CD Janáček String Quartet No. 1 “After Tolstoy's 'Kreutzer Sonate' and Pavel Haas string quartet No. 1 and No. 3 as well as Beethoven's string quartet op. 95 for the cover CD of the May 2009 issue of BBC Music Magazine).

Awards

In 2004 the Pavel Haas Quartet won the “Vittorio E. Rimbotti” Prize in Florence, in 2005 at the Prague Spring Festival and also in 2005 at the international competition for string quartets Premio Paolo Borciani . The European Concert Hall Organization named her a “Rising Star” for 2007–2008. Her first CD recording, released in October 2006, was named "Chamber Choice" by BBC Music Magazine .

Recordings

• 2006: Janáček Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; Haas Quartet No. 2, "Aus den Affenbergen" (with Colin Currie, drums) ( Supraphon )
• 2007: Janáček Quartet No. 1, based on Tolstoy's “Kreutzer Sonata”; Haas Quartet No. 1; Haas Quartet No. 3 ( Supraphon )
• 2009: Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4, Op. 135 and Op. 95 ( BBC Music Magazine cover CD, May 2009)
• 2010: Dvořák String Quartet Op. 96 No. 12, "American Quartet"; String Quartet Op. 106 No. 13 ( Supraphon )
• 2013: Schubert String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden”; String quintet in C major, with Danjulo Ishizaka, violoncello ( supraphone )
• 2015: Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From my life”; String Quartet No. 2 in D minor ( Supraphon )
• 2017: Dvořák Piano Quintet Op. 81 No. 2 in A major, with Boris Giltburg, piano; String Quintet in E flat major Op. 97, with Pavel Nikl, violin ( supraphon )

Web links

• Homepage: Pavel Haas Quartet
• Robert Nemecek: Step by step to the top of the world: Pavel Haas Quartet , ensemble magazin, issue 4/2008

Remarks

1. ↑ Artist biography ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 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. Intermusica 
2. ↑ Catalog entry ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 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. , Supraphon 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Catalog entry ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Supraphon 
4. ↑ Meeting ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2008 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. , BBC Music Magazine 
5. ↑ Cover CD booklet (May 2009)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BBC Music Magazine  

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• "Class of 2007" ( BBC Music Magazine 15: 7, March 2007) p. 29
• Artist biography - Intermusica
• Premio Paolo Borciani