- Geoff Brown, April 2008
One of the most dynamic and exciting quartets currently performing, the Jerusalem Quartet continues to be in great demand all over the world. This season, they will perform a total of five concerts in London’s Wigmore Hall, and will also appear in Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Hamburg, Brussels, Paris, Munich, Zurich, Geneva, Grenoble and Munich. With a growing reputation in North America they have appeared in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Washington. Last summer saw them appearing at the Edinburgh, Rheingau and Passau Festivals and next season they return to the Bath Mozart Festival. The quartet is in residence for Musica Viva Australia between 2006 and 2009; in October 2008 their 12-concert tour will include Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. They also continue as quartet in residence at the new auditorium in Valladolid, Spain.
As exclusive artists of Harmonia Mundi the quartet’s latest CD was a recording of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz in C minor, released in spring 2008. Their discography also includes Dvorak’s American Quartet and the Piano Quintet with pianist Stefan Vladar (May 2006); two Shostakovich recordings (quartets 1, 4 and 9 released in May 2005 and 6, 8 and 11 released in spring 2007); and a Haydn quartet CD released in spring 2004. Their 2007 Shostakovich release won the chamber category of the BBC Music Magazine Awards for the best recordings of the year in spring 2008.
Biography
Jun: 07 Quartet wins VSCD Music Prize
Nov 06: Canadian success for Jerusalem Quartet
May 06: a new Dvorak recording
