Quartet Gerhard

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The Quartet Gerhard is a Catalan string quartet from Barcelona. Miquel Jordà i Saún plays the viola, Lluís Castán i Cochs and Judit Bardolet i Vilaró play the violin and Jésus Miralles i Roger the violoncello.

In 2010, four long-time friends founded the Quartet Gerhard in Catalonia . The young musicians chose the name of the Swiss-Catalan composer and Schoenberg student Robert Gerhard (1896–1970) for their quartet . The four musicians studied together in Basel ( Rainer Schmidt ), Berlin ( Eberhard Feltz ) and Hanover ( Oliver Wille ). At these stations the quartet perfected its characteristically warm, homogeneous sound.

The quartet has won numerous music competitions in Spain and Europe. The quartet won second prize in the 2010 INJUVE Award for Classical Music from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture and in 2011 in the Juventudes Musicales de España competition . In 2011, the quartet was declared the “most convincing young ensemble ” by Jeunesses Musicales at the International Chamber Music Festival at Weikersheim Castle . The quartet has been taking part in the ProQuartet Academy festival in France on a regular basis since 2011 . The quartet has been invited to major festivals such as the Segovia Festival of Music , the Würzburg Mozart Festival or the Dino Ciani Festival in Italy ; it has already played in important concert halls in Spain. In January 2013, the Gerhard Quartet was awarded the August Pickhardt Foundation Prize. This award is linked to a concert in the series of the Society for Chamber Music Basel.

Concerts by the quartet have been and are regularly broadcast by Catalunya Musica , Radio Nacional de España , SWR 2 and NDR .

In 2016 the CD “Portrait” was released with works by Mendelssohn, Robert Gerhard and Ravel. In autumn 2017 the ensemble made its debut with Harmonia Mundi in the Harmonia Nova series with works by Schumann, Kurtág and Berg. The quartet received rave reviews for these interpretations. The Guardian spoke of an “enormously impressive debut” and Rhinegold magazine of an “extremely important CD” .

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  1. ↑ heidelberger-fruehling.de: Gerhard Quartet. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .