Signum Quartett

#quartweets @ Deutschlandfunk

A special #quartweet concert at the Deutschlandfunk Raderbergkonzerte, Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 20:00. There will be a live stream and live tweeting, so listen in and tell us what you think! @DLFMusik #raderbergkonzert

Paul Watkins (Emerson Quartet) joins us for Schubert’s monumental C major Quintet, and we also play Janáček’s searing second quartet “Intimate Letters”.

Kevin Volans world premiere in Guardian Top 10

Our premiere of the 12^th String Quartet by Kevin Volans in November has made The Guardian’s Top 10 classical music of 2016
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Bruno Mantovani 3^rd String Quartet

We will be giving a number of European premieres of the wildly energetic 3^rd String Quartet, written for us by Bruno Mantovani, from November 2016 – January 2017, including stops in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, London and Vienna.
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quartweet project at Cardiff University

Our #quartweet project had its first university residency in November in Cardiff. In addition to workshops, a seminar and concerts, we gave the world premieres of 13 student quartweets as well as the quartweet “the third solitude” by lecturer and residency co-ordinator Robert Fokkens.
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Profile in concerti magazine

In the October edition of Concerti magazine, you can find a profile on us entitled “Der Vierer ist komplett”.
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Press

“brilliantly performed”, “with perfect precision” 5* —Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph

alla czeca

“The gesture-rich Five Pieces by Erwin Schulhoff […] succeed brilliantly.” —Harald Eggebrecht, Süddeutsche Zeitung

soundescapes: “An exhilarating cocktail.”
“How wonderful it is when interpreters bring these ideas to life with such verve and intuition. […] An enthusiasm for playing which will perk up even hardened chamber music-grouches.”—Spiegel Online

Jörg Widmann and friends at the Prinzregententheater
The acoustic signals of the violent string cascades chased the wild shouting of the players until the bow hairs of the instruments of the splendid Signum ensemble were flying and the exhausted and fatally wounded cellist was hunted down.”—Süddeutsche Zeitung

Signum Quartet at Wigmore Hall
“… a full-throttled performance…”—classicalsource.com