Jerusalem Quartet

โ€œPassion, precision, warmth, a gold blend: these are the trademarks of this excellent Israeli string quartet.โ€ย 

Such was the New York Timesโ€™ impression of the Jerusalem Quartet. Since the ensembleโ€™s founding in 1993 and subsequent 1996 debut, the four Israeli musicians have embarked on a journey of growth and maturation. This experience has resulted in a wide repertoire and stunning depth of expression, which carries on the string quartet tradition in a unique manner. The ensemble has found its core in a warm, full, human sound and an egalitarian balance between high and low voices. This approach allows the Quartet to maintain a healthy relationship between individual expression and a transparent and respectful presentation of the composerโ€™s work. It is also the drive and motivation for the continuing refinement of its interpretations of the classical repertoire as well as exploration of new epochs.

The Jerusalem Quartet is a regular and beloved guest on the worldโ€™s great concert stages. Recent appearances include a Beethoven quartet cycle at Wigmore Hall in London; a Bartok cycle at the Salzburg Festival; their third annual String Quartet seminar in Crans Montana Switzerland; and in fall 2022 they will begin a residency at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. This season, they will return to the Berlin Philharmonie and embark on a tour of South Korea. Their North American tours will take them to Philadelphia, PA; Buffalo, NY; Pasadena, CA; Palm Beach, FL; Durham, NC; Columbia, MD; Charlottesville, VA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL (performing sextets with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth); Dallas, TX; Cleveland, OH; and Indianapolis, IN.

The Jerusalem Quartetโ€™s recordings have been honored with numerous awards, including the Diapason dโ€™Or and the BBC Music Magazine Award for chamber music. They have recorded the string quartets of Haydn; Schubertโ€™s โ€œDeath and the Maidenโ€; an album of Dvorakโ€™s String Quintet Op.97 and Sextet Op.48, and the quartets by Ravel and Debussy. In 2019, the Quartet released a unique album exploring Jewish music in Central Europe between the wars and its far- reaching influence, featuring a collection of Yiddish Cabaret songs from 1920s Warsaw, as well as works by Schulhoff and Korngold. The second installment of their Bartok quartet recording was released in 2020.