Goldmund Quartet

“Downright scary-good”
(KUSC Blog)

Praised for their “exquisite playing” and “multi-layered homogeneity” by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Goldmund Quartet inspires audiences worldwide with its inwardness, unbelievably fine intonation, and phrases worked out down to the smallest detail. These qualities have led to some of the finest interpretations of both classical and contemporary chamber music repertoire.

The Goldmund Quartet’s 2026/27 season opens with a visit to Tokyo and Shiga. Other highlights include a substantial U.S. tour with performances in Washington D.C. among other cities, as well as two engagements at Wigmore Hall, where they present a quartet recital and a programme with trumpeter Matilda Lloyd. Further engagements take the Quartet to the Brucknerhaus Linz, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Prinzregententheater München, alongside returns to celebrated festivals such as Schubertiade Hohenems. In 2027, the Goldmund Festival – their own chamber music festival at Kloster Irsee – enters its third edition, continuing their commitment to artistic collaboration and musical exploration.

Collaborations with composers such as Kaan Bulak, Jörg Widmann and others prove their dedication to commissioning and performing contemporary music. These efforts alongside educational projects are supported by the Friends of Goldmund Quartett e.V.

The Goldmund Quartet has performed alongside artists such as Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Sabine Meyer, Pablo Ferrández, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Martynas Levickis, Maximilian Hornung, Elisabeth Brauß, Christian Gerhaher and Fazil Say.

The Goldmund Quartet’s latest recording, Paganini – his music, his instruments, brings together the Quartet and guitarist Carlotta Dalia in a programme of Paganini’s chamber music, performed on five historic instruments once owned by the composer himself. This project is the latest example of the Goldmund Quartet’s musical versatility, reflected in a discography spanning repertoire from Schubert and Mendelssohn to contemporary works by Wolfgang Rihm and Dobrinka Tabakova. Their 2023 album Prisma featured music by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Uno Helmersson alongside commissions by Pascal Schumacher and Sophia Jani, while Dahoam (2025) explored the ensemble’s Bavarian roots through an innovative mixture of folk and classical music.

In 2016, the Quartet won the Bayrischer Kunstförderpreis and the ARD Competition’s Karl Klinger Prize. Winners of the 2018 International Wigmore Hall String Competition and the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the Goldmund Quartet were named as Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organisation for 2019/20.

Since 2019, they have been performing on Antonio Stradivari’s Paganini Quartet, provided by the Sasakawa Music Foundation (formerly known as Nippon Music Foundation). The Quartet was also awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize in March 2020.

In addition to studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and with members of the Alban Berg Quartet, including Günter Pichler at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, master classes and studies with members of the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaye and Cherubini Quartets, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz and Alfred Brendel gave the Quartet important musical impulses.

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Goldmund Quartett - Shostakovich - Streichquartett Nr. 3: III. Allegro non Troppo © berlinclassics

Goldmund Quartett - Shostakovich (Interview) © berlinclassics

Goldmund Quartet – Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, D87

Goldmund Quartet - Haydn: String Quartets album trailer

Beethoven String Quartet Op 18 No 4

Goldmund Quartet - String_Quartet No 3 II Moderato con moto © Berlin Classics

Goldmund Quartet - String Quartet No 9 II Adagio © Berlin Classics

Goldmund Quartet - String Quartet No 9 III Allegretto © Berlin Classics

“The music of Shostakovich is always fascinating of course, hardly worth arguing about. But this recording by the Goldmund Quartet is in another realm. The incredible musicality of the four string players, their rhythmic precision and crystal clear intonation ensure that this CD is a real highlight. Highly recommended.”

(hr2-Kultur, August 2018)

“Sunday, Phillips Music presented the Munich-based Goldmund Quartet in the ballroom of Anderson House. These four young men, violinists Florian Schötz and Pinchas Adt, violist Christoph Vandory, and cellist Raphael Paratore, captured all hearts from the first measures of Haydn’s Quartet in G, Op 54, No 1, which fairly burst with intelligence and wit. Their to-the-manner-born ease with the rhetoric of Viennese classicism readily translated to the second of Beethoven’s ‘Rasumovsky’ quartets in a performance that was well integrated, lean, and searingly intense.”

(Washington Post, January 2018)

“In Haydn’s String Quartet op. 33 No. 5 they display their quartet sound – articulated and delicately balanced.”

(hr2-Kultur, January 2017)

“An acute sense of timing distinguishes both music and interpretation in this promising recorded debut from the Munich-based Goldmund Quartet. These preformances show how the players understand that silences and pauses always mean something in Haydn, as a means of disconcertion or of gathering thought.”

(The Strad, December 2016)

“Their delicate and intense sound touched the audience.”

(Landshuter Zeitung, June 2015)

“The four young musicians performed with impressive ease and harmony.”

(Isar-Loisachbote, March 2015)