Goldmund Quartet

String quartet

Winner in the renowned International Wigmore Hall String Competition and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2018, the Goldmund Quartet is now counted amongst the leading string quartets of the younger generation worldwide. The Quartet is known for their “exquisite playing” and “multi-layered homogeneity (Süddeutsche Zeitung) in their interpretations of the great classical and contemporary works of the quartet literature. Goldmund’s inwardness, the unbelievably fine intonation and the phrases worked out down to the smallest detail inspire audiences worldwide.

The Quartet’s success is reflected in their 2023/24 season calendar. Highlights include their debut at prestigious festivals such as Festival Dolomites, Settimane Musicali di Ascona, and Viotti Festival in Vercelli, Italy, their return to such important halls as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam for a concert with pianist Fazil Say, to Tokyo Opera City as part of their Japan tour, a tour in the United States, return visits to the renowned Hörtnagel series in Munich, and the Haus der Musik Innsbruck and Schwetzingen Festival.

Following their victories at the Wigmore Hall and Melbourn competitions, the Goldmund Quartet was selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation as Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season. In addition, the Quartet was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize in March 2020 and the Freiherr von Waltershausen Prize in December 2020. In 2016, the Quartet was already a winner of the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize and the Karl Klinger Prize of the prestigious ARD Competition.

The Goldmund Quartet has been collaborating with a number of renowned musicians, including Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Krichel, Alexey Stadler and Wies de Boevé, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Elisabeth Brauss, Maximilian Hornung, Frank Dupree, Simon Höfele.

Following their 2020 release on Berlin Classics of Travel Diaries, the Quartet’s third album included works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ana Sokolovic, Fazil Say and Dobrinka Tabakova. In 2023, they released Enigma, on Berlin Classic’s Neue Meisterseries, as a limited vinyl release, featuring contemporary works by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Uno Helmersson alongside two newly commissioned pieces by Pascal Schumacher and Sophia Jani; and subsequently they released an all-Schubert album, The Death and the Maiden.

The Goldmund Quartet studied 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. In addition, the Goldmunds followed studies with members of the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaÿe and Cherubini quartets, as well as Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz and Alfred Brendel, who gave the Quartet important musical impulses.

Since 2019, the Goldmund Quartet has been performing on Antonio Stradivari’s Paganini Quartet, provided by the Nippon Music Foundation.