Vogler Quartet
The Vogler Quartet is a Berlin- based German string quartet . It was founded in 1985 and has played together with the same cast since the beginning of 1986.
history
At that time, together with the Petersen Quartet, also based in East Berlin , it was one of the most important young ensembles in the GDR after the musicians won the string quartet competition in Evian / France in May 1986 with multiple prizes. The quartet received artistic impulses a. a. by the LaSalle Quartet , the Guarneri Quartet , Sándor Végh and György Kurtág .
The quartet now gives concerts internationally in all major music centers and at important festivals. Since 1993 it has been designing its own series in the Konzerthaus Berlin . The musicians' extensive repertoire covers all epochs and styles. In addition to the complete recording of all string quartets by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms , CD recordings with works by Beethoven , Debussy , Janáček , Reger , Shostakovich and most recently with the two string quartets by Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the two-and-a-half-hour piano quintet Hauptweg und Nebenwege by Michael Denhoff have been released .
The Vogler Quartet is also involved in various music festivals and projects - for example, for a number of years at the Kassel Music Festival and the Kassel Children's Music Days. As an ensemble of lecturers, the Vogler Quartet is a regular guest at the International Chamber Music Campus of Jeunesses Musicales Germany at Weikersheim Castle.
occupation
- Tim Vogler, 1st violin
- Frank Reinecke, 2nd violin
- Stefan Fehlandt, viola
- Stephan Forck, violoncello
literature
- Frank Schneider: A world on sixteen strings. Conversations with the Vogler Quartet. Berenberg Verlag , Berlin, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vogler Quartet in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Vogler Quartet. In: vogler-quartett.de. Vogler Quartet, archived from the original on March 10, 2020 ; accessed on June 11, 2020 .