News
Aris Quartett on BBC TV
It was a very special honour to be guests on the BBC TV 4 programme "New Generation Artists Presents" this spring.
The show was broadcast from the historic Coal Exchange in Cardiff/Wales on May 01st.
You can hear the last two movements of Felix Mendelssohn's famous String Quartet in F minor op.80.
Listen to our performance here!
Aris Quartet awarded
Ursula Mamlok im März 2009, Foto © Simon Pauly
The Aris Quartet receives the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation Award for Interpretation of Contemporary Music 2022.
We are very pleased about this great appreciation, since we attach great importance to the collaboration with living composers and the integration of new music in the context of the classical
string quartet repertoire!
The award ceremony will take place at the Konzerthaus Berlin on June 27, 2022 at 19:30.
→ For more information, please visit the homepage of the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Foundation.
Wigmore Hall debut
We are very excited to finally make our debut at the Wigmore Hall London on October 11th!
The concert will be broadcast live at 01.00 pm by BBC Radio 3, with works by Schulhoff, Kurtág and Mendelssohn
You are welcome to watch the concert live in the video stream!
Prizes and Awards
- 2012 - 1. Prize "International Johannes-Brahms-Competition", Pörtschach (Austria)
- 2013 - 1. Prize "European Chamber Music Competition, Karlsruhe (Germany)
- 2014 - 1. Prize "Lenzewski Competition for Modern Chamber Music", Frankfurt (Germany)
- 2014 - 1. Prize "International August-Everding-Competition" for string quartets, Munich (Germany)
- 2016 - 1. Prize and 4 special prizes at the "7th International Joseph-Joachim Chamber Music Competition" in Weimar
- 2016 Chamber Music Prize, Jürgen-Ponto Foundation
- 2016 - 2. Prize, Audience Prize, Osnabrücker Musikpreis, Special Awards ProQuartet and Genuin Classics at the International ARD Music Competition
- 2016 - 1. Prize International Competition of the Irene Steels Wilsing- Foundation (Berlin)
- 2017 - Supersonic Award of the music magazine "pizzicato" (Luxembourg) for the CD release: "Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet op. 59/3 and op. 131"
- 2018 - BBC "New Generation Artists
- 2018 - Supersonic Award of the music magazine "pizzicato" (Luxembourg) for the CD release with music by Shostakovich and Schubert
- 2019 - ECHO Rising Stars of the European Concert Hall Organisation
- 2020 - Borletti Buitoni Trust Award
- 2022 - Mamlok-foundation Award for contemporary music 2022
Reviews
“... one of the most sensational ensembles of the younger generation ..."
ARTE
" ... brilliantly played..."
BBC Music Magazine
“... simply sensational music-making …”
“... one of the outstanding string quartet formations …”
Deutschlandfunk
“... on the verge of an international career ...”
NDR Kultur
“... the Aris Quartet demonstrates world-class playing …”
SPIEGEL
“... finely nuanced and riveting ...”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"... an ensemble to which the future belongs ..."
Neue Musikzeitung
“World-class music-making …”
Süddeutsche Zeitung