Signum Quartet
The Signum Quartet is a Cologne- based string quartet and was founded in 1994. It has been playing in its current line-up since 2016.
Tours
Concert appearances have taken the Signum Quartet to international podiums at the Hamburg Laeiszhalle , the Liederhalle Stuttgart , the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the London Wigmore Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie as well as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Aldeburgh Festival , the Festival d ' Aix-en-Provence and the BBC Proms . At the invitation of the Goethe Institute , the ensemble went on concert tours, for example to Asia, North and South America and Africa.
Her album No.3 was awarded the International Classical Music Awards 2014 as best recording in the chamber music category.
Radio stations as well as the broadcasters of ARD, Deutschlandfunk, DRS, ORF, BBC and arte regularly broadcast concerts by the ensemble.
Between 2011 and 2013 the Signum Quartet received funding from the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme .
occupation
- Florian Donderer (violin)
- Annette Walther (violin)
- Xandi van Dijk (viola)
- Thomas Schmitz (cellist) (violoncello)
Artistic development
Intensive studies took place with the Alban Berg Quartet , the Artemis Quartet and the Melos Quartet as well as collaboration with György Kurtág , Tabea Zimmermann , Walter Levin , Alfred Brendel , Jörg Widmann , Leon Fleisher and a. In 1998 the ensemble was included in the funding program of the Villa Musica Chamber Music Foundation and since February 2003 the quartet has been sponsored by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now eV. This was followed by chamber music studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart , the University of Music and Dance Cologne , the Instituto International de Música de Cámara of the Royal University of Madrid and at the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (tutorial ).
Awards and grants
- International Classical Music Awards (2014)
- BBC New Generation Artists (2011-2013)
- stART program Bayer Culture (2009–2012)
- International Chamber Music Competition Hamburg (2009)
- London International String Quartet Competition (2009)
- Premio Paolo Borciani, Reggio Emilia (2008)
- Special Prize Zonta International (2004)
- German Music Competition (2004)
- Special Prize of the Rheingau Music Festival (2000)
- Thomastik Infeld Prize (1999)
- 1st prize at the International Charles Hennen Concours, Heerlen (1997)
- 1st Federal Prize at Jugend musiziert (1995)
Recordings
The Signum Quartet has been recording for the Capriccio label since 2009 .
- alla czeca : Antonín Dvořák - string quartet in G major, op.106, Erwin Schulhoff - five pieces for string quartet (1923), Josef Suk - meditation on the old Czech chorale "St Wenceslaus", op. 35, capriccio (2015)
- soundescapes : Claude Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, op.10 , Thomas Adès - Arcadiana, Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F major, Capriccio (2015)
- No 3 : Alban Berg - String Quartet op.3, Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 3, Alfred Schnittke - String Quartet No. 3, Capriccio (2013)
- Quartet movements with works by Hugo Wolf , Giacomo Puccini , Carl Orff (first recording), Charles Ives , Wolfgang Rihm , Franz Schubert , Anton Webern , Capriccio (2011)
- Horn quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Wilhelm Gottlieb Hauff , Franz Anton Hoffmeister , Michael Haydn , Ludwig van Beethoven , with Nury Guarnaschelli , horn, capriccio (2011)
- String quartets No. 1 and 2 by Ludwig Thuille , first recording, Capriccio (2010) and others
As a guest:
- Brahms : Johannes Brahms - Sonatas for viola and piano, op.120, Hungarian Dances No. 4, 5 and 16 arranged for viola and string quartet, with Nils Mönkemeyer , viola and William Youn, piano, Sony Classical (2015)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Donderer appointed Signum Quartet first violinist . Strad Magazine website. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
- ↑ Jörg Widmann & Signum String Quartet - Tour Calendar April - June 2013 . Website of the Goethe Institute. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
- ↑ ICMA Prize Winner 2014 . ICMA website. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- ^ WDR 3 Chamber Concerts NRW - Signum Quartet ( Memento from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Website of WDR 3, April 13, 2013
- ^ Signum Quartet - Artist Page . BBC Radio New Generation Artists website. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
- ↑ Chamber concert for the Mendelssohn Festival 2013 with the Signum Quartet - press release . Website of the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. Retrieved October 14, 2013.