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Aris Quartett - BBC Proms
We are really looking forward to perform at "BBC Proms - The World's greatest classical music festival" for our first time. The concert will take place on August 12th and will be broadcasted by BBC Radio 3 - you are very welcome to join us, live in concert as well as on radio..!
Release of our latest CD recording
Our latest CD - including the 8th string quartet by Shostakovich and 'The death and maiden' by Schubert - has been released by GENUIN Classics in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk in September
2018.
The recording has received the Pizzicato Supersonic Award.
You can listen to it on Spotify our buy it online , on Amazon, Ebay and many
others...
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
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