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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
Reviews
“... the future of the classical music scene...”
ZDF Aspekte
“... one of the most sensational ensembles of the younger generation...."
ARTE
“...on the verge of an international career...”
NDR Kultur
“...finely nuanced and exciting”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"...an ensemble to whom the future belongs..."
Neue Musikzeitung
"... an ensemble reaching for the highest stars of chamber music ... it is obvious how perfect, artistically mature and yet emotional, the Aris Quartett’s organism knows to interact ...”
Badische Zeitung
“ fast-paced performance, joy in communication, and enthralling playing..."
Süddeutsche Zeitung