





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 Quartet’s 2025/26 season highlights include a substantial U.S. tour with performances in Boston, Houston and Miami, as well as masterclasses in collaboration with the Tokyo University of the Arts. The Quartet returns to celebrated festivals including Schubertiade Hohenems, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival, where they will perform alongside Martynas Levickis. Further engagements feature appearances at Alte Oper Frankfurt with Raphaela Gromes, Liederhalle Stuttgart, and concerts in Leiden and Warsaw. They will also join forces with Sabine Meyer for performances in Grünwald and Bamberg, and collaborate with Fazil Say at Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. In June 2026, the Quartet curates the second edition of their own chamber music festival at Kloster Irsee, continuing their commitment to artistic collaboration and musical exploration.
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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.
Their most recently released album, Dahoam, is a musical exploration of their Bavarian background, achieved through an innovative mixture of folk and classical music. Known for tremendous musical versatility, the Quartet’s albums have similarly featured both traditional classical and contemporary works from Schubert and Mendelssohn to Wolfgang Rihm and Dobrinka Tabakova. The Quartet’s 2023 Prisma album featured contemporary works by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Uno Helmersson, alongside two newly commissioned pieces by Pascal Schumacher and Sophia Jani.
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 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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Sabine Frank Senior Director, Co-Head of Artist Management | Managing Director HP Munich | Head of International Offices
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Season Highlights
Prinzregententheater
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Schubertiade
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FRANZ SCHUBERT: Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat, D87
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden)
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Divertimento in F Major, K138
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
FRANCIS POULENC: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
FAZIL SAY: Space Jump, Op. 46
FAZIL SAY: “Divorce” for String Quartet, Op. 29
FAZIL SAY: Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op. 55
“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.”
“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.”
“In Haydn’s String Quartet op. 33 No. 5 they display their quartet sound – articulated and delicately balanced.”
“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.”
“Their delicate and intense sound touched the audience.”
“The four young musicians performed with impressive ease and harmony.”