Royal String Quartet
The Royal String Quartet is an internationally performing Polish string quartet . It was founded in 1998 and consists of the musicians Izabella Szałaj-Zimak (1st violin ), Elwira Przybyłowska (2nd violin), Paweł Czarny ( viola ) and Michał Pepol ( violoncello ).
repertoire
The repertoire includes a large number of string quartets and piano quintets in particular by many composers - from classical to modern: Grażyna Bacewicz , Samuel Barber , Béla Bartók , Ludwig van Beethoven , Luigi Boccherini , Johannes Brahms , Johannes Bernardus van Bree , Zbigniew Bujarski , Charles Camilleri , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Frederic Chopin , Mikołaj Ciurlionis , George Crumb , Antonin Dvorak , Iván Erőd , Antonio Giacometti , Reinhold Gliere , Henryk Górecki , Stewart Grant , Edvard Grieg , Sofia Gubaidulina , Joseph Haydn , Charles Ives , Mieczysław Karłowicz , Aleksander Kościów , Robert Kurdybacha , Paweł Łukaszewski , James MacMillan , Bohuslav Martinu , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , René Mertzig , Stanislaw Moniuszko , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Astor Piazzolla , Ludomir Różycki , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Edward Sielicki , Dmitri Shostakovich , Karol Szymanowski , Paweł Szymański , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Carl Maria von Weber , A nton Webern , Lotta Wennakoski , John Woolrich and Juliusz Zarębski .
Discography (selection)
- Mendelssohn: Octet; Schubert: 'Trout' Quintet. BBC Music Magazine, 2006
- Szymanowski: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Rózycki: String Quartet. Hyperion, 2009
Awards / prizes
The quartet received several awards at international competitions:
- at the International Kiejstut Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition in Lodz (1998)
- 1st Prize and Grand Prix at the Carlo Silva Competition in Casale Monferrato (2000)
- at the Bronislaw Hubermann Festival in Warsaw (2002)
- 2nd prize at the 7th chamber music competition in Krakow (2003)
- Special prize of the jury at the 1st International String Quartet Competition in Kuohmo (Finland) (2004)
- 3rd prize at the 8th International String Quartet Competition in Banff (Canada) (2004)