Signum Quartet

The Signum Quartet is a string quartet based in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1994, it has been playing in the current formation since 2016.[1]

Concert and festival appearances

The Signum Quartet has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Philharmonie Essen and the Beethoven-Haus Bonn and has been invited to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival of Music[2][3] the BBC Proms and the Festival Aix-en-Provence.

At the invitation of the Goethe Institute, the quartet has undertaken extended concert tours which have hitherto seen them perform in Asia, Middle America and Africa.

Their album ‘No.3’ (released in May 2013) with quartets by Bartók, Schnittke and Berg was announced as the winner of the chamber music category of the International Classical Music Awards 2014.[4]

Concerts by the four musicians have been broadcast nationally and internationally by stations of the ARD, Deutschlandfunk, DRS, ORF, BBC and Arte.[5]

From 2009 - 2012 it was supported by the stART Programme of the Bayer Cultural Affairs Department (Bayer Kultur) and from 2011 - 2013 was named a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.[6]

Members

Artistic development

Intensive studies with the Alban Berg Quartet, the Artemis Quartet and the Melos Quartet as well as masterclasses and co-operations with György Kurtág, Tabea Zimmermann, Walter Levin, Alfred Brendel, Jörg Widmann, Leon Fleisher i.a.

Chamber music studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Instituto International de Música de Cámara of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig (Tutorium).[7]

Awards and recognition

Recordings

The Signum Quartet has been recording for the record label Capriccio since 2009.

Guest appearance:

References

  1. ↑ Florian Donderer appointed Signum Quartet first violinist. Website of The Strad Magazine, retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Signum at Aldeburgh, weblink Feb 22nd 2012.
  3. ↑ Review of Signum, retrieved 23 February 2012.
  4. ↑ ICMA Homepage - Winners 2014, retrieved 5 February 2014.
  5. ↑ WDR 3 Kammerkonzerte NRW - Signum Quartett. Website of WDR 3, 13 April 2013, retrieved on 14 October 2013
  6. ↑ Signum Quartet – Artist Page. Website of the BBC Radio New Generation Artists, retrieved on 12 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Kammerkonzert zu den Mendelssohn-Festtagen 2013 mit dem Signum Quartett – Press announcement. Website of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« Leipzig, retrieved 14 October 2013.


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