Zehetmair Quartet

Zehetmair Quartet

The Zehetmair Quartet embarked upon their first concert tour in 1998, which led to immediate reinvitations from all promoters. Regular invitations to the USA and Japan are completing the Quartet’s annual European tours. Furthermore, the Zehetmair Quartet is a welcome guest at famous international summer festivals such as Edinburgh Festival and Helsinki Festival.

Highlights of past concert seasons include a cycle of all of Robert Schumann´s string quartets at Wigmore Hall in London, the world premiere of String Quartet No. 2 by Heinz Holliger — a work commissioned for the Zehetmair Quartet - as well as concerts at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Festival Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo and in New York to commemorate Elliott Carter´s 100th birthday. Beyond that the quartet has made extended concert tours with performances in several German cities and at numerous outstanding chamber music series of Europe including Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon.

The Zehetmair Quartet has recorded Bartók's Fourth String Quartet and Hartmann's First Quartet as well as Schumann's First and Third String Quartets. Both recordings have won several awards, including Gramophone Award for Record of the Year, the Diapason d'Or, and the Klara Prize for Best International Production of the Year. The latest CD of Hindemith’s Quartet No 4 Bartok’s Quartet No 5, was honored by the press as a reference recording and was awarded with the Diapason d’Or of the Year. Future releases include a disc dedicated to works by Holliger and Beethoven.

After their debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2010 and a re-invitation in the following year the Zehetmair Quartet will perform in Salzburg again in 2012. The Quartet also enjoyed great success at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with Beethoven´s string quartets op. 131 and op. 135 in 2011.