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“Downright scary-good”
(KUSC Blog)

“A highly individual musicality that speaks to the audience.”

Counted amongst the most exciting young string quartets, the Goldmund Quartet has with its exquisite playing and multi-faceted homogeneity given convincing interpretations of the great classical and modern works of the string quartet literature for more than a decade now. Their inwardness, unbelievably fine intonation, and phrasing worked out to the smallest detail inspire audiences worldwide.

Awarded at the prestigious 2018 International Wigmore Hall String Competition and winners of the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018, the Goldmund Quartet has been named Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season by the European Concert Hall Organisation as well as laureates of the Jürgen Ponto-Foundation. The Nippon Music Foundation has awarded the Quartet with a full set of Stradivari instruments.

Following their successful debuts at Europe’s most prestigious concert halls such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the 2020/21 season sees the Quartet continuing their ascent as one of today’s most exciting young string quartets with recitals at Philharmonie Essen, Historisches Reitstadel Neumarkt, Philharmonie Köln, DeSingel Antwerp, Stockholm Konserthus and others. Other highlights this season include appearances at Beethovenfest Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling as well as a tour of North America with concerts in Kansas City, Boston, Salt Lake City, Montréal and Ottawa.

In 2020, Berlin Classics released the Quartet’s third recording Travel Diaries featuring works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ana Sokolovic, Fazil Say and Dobrinka Tabakova which Harald Eggebrecht depicted “one of the liveliest and most inspiring string quartet CDs in recent time.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Travel Diaries is a personal musical journey featuring contemporary works by composers the quartet worked with over the last ten years.

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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

“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)