Quartet

Amaryllis Quartet

 

After winning the Finalists’ Prize at the Premio Paolo Borciani 2011 in Reggio

Emilia (no First Prize was awarded) and then, only four weeks later, winning

First Prize and the Grand Prize at the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Com-

petition, the Amaryllis Quartett now numbers among the first rank of

string quartets of their generation.

The four young musicians, who first studied with Walter Levin in Basel and later

with the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne, have also won prizes at international competi-

tions in Heerlen, Eindhoven and Graz and have been awarded a scholarship by the Ger-

man Music Council. The quartet regularly appears in concert series and at festivals,

including the Lucerne Festival and Società del Quartetto di Milano, and have been

invited to appear at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Melbourne

Recital Centre and Tokyo’s Dai-ichi Seimei Hall.

The quartet has been featured in recordings and productions by German broad-

casters SWR, WDR, NDR, BR, as well as Swiss Radio DRS and Radio France. In 

addition they have initiated their own recital series at Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle and the

Concert Hall in Solothurn, Switzerland.

The members of the quartet always strive to program standard quartet literature

with contemporary compositions as well as revive forgotten masterpieces such as

the music of Béla Bartók pupil Géza Frid (world premiere recording). The Amaryllis

Quartett enjoys  combining works  from the Viennese classical  period with those of the 

Second Viennese School in their recitals.

The Amaryllis  Quartett regularly performs with chamber music partners Barbara

Westphal, Dimitri Ashkenazy, François Benda, Patrick Demenga, Jens Peter Maintz

and Gustav Rivinius.