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Auryn Quartet

Matthias Lingenfelder, Jens Oppermann, violins; Stewart Eaton, viola; Andreas Arndt, cello

"There is no shortage of great and famous Beethoven cycles, but there are no performances such as these... this is the set to beat." Gramophone

"Shared spirituality." The N.Y. Times

Press Quotes

"The Auryn is a quartet in the European tradition that blends elegance of sound with seamless phrasing and clarity of detail." (The Plain Dealer)  The spirit of friendship has been the driving force behind the Auryn Quartet. Founded in 1981, its members interact with a sensitivity that seems almost telepathic" (The Washington Post). Having studied with the Amadeus and Guarneri Quartets, the ensemble has developed into one of the most important quartet of its generation,  touring extensively and performing regularly in the major concert halls of Europe, Israel, North, Central and South America, Australia and Asia, including Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Frick Collection and Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, having developed an excellent reputation "based upon perfect intonation, exquisite ensemble, a pleasing and sonorous timbre, and stylistically accurate, intense interpretations" (FonoForum).
The quartet is also a regular guest at numerous festivals such as Salzburg, Edinburgh, Lockenhaus, Mondsee, Luzern, Kuhmo, Schleswig-Holstein, Beethovenfest Bonn, Berliner Festwochen, and Ottawa's "Strings of the Future" -- and is the quartet-in-residence at the Washington, DC, Schubert & Schubert Festival. In the spring of 06, the quartet celebrated its 25th birthday (still the original personnel!) with a performance at the Vienna Musikverein and in November of 06 it made its very successful Lincoln Center debut when it opened the international quartet series of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall. 

After performances of the Beethoven quartet cycle for the Amici della Musica in Padova, Italy, the Quartet is looking forward to performances of the cycle in Hamburg in September 2008, as well as in in Arezzo, Italy.  For the year 2009, the quartet is going to perform the complete Haydn quartets in that year, not only for the  WDR Radio in Cologne, but also in Padova, possibly London etc.. Each cycle comprises 18 concerts, which includes the “Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross”.

The other significant development is a new Festival that the quartet has launched in historic Este in Italy.

The quartet records for the Tacet, Accord and cpo labels, and has won numerous prizes for their recordings, so e.g. the Diapason d'Or for the recording of the complete Schubert quartet cycle. TACET  released in 2004 four volumes of the complete Beethoven quartet literature.  For Vol I, the quartet was recently awarded the 2004 Classical Internet Award in the category of Chamber Music. And Gramophone concludes its review of Vols III and IV: "There is no shortage of great and famous Beethoven cycles, but there are no performances such as these.  For me, this is now the set to beat."  After the Beethoven, the quartet is now busy recording the complete Haydn quartets.

1st Prize, 2nd Annual International String Quartet Competition, Portsmouth, England, 1982
1st Prize, ARD (Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in Germany), Munich, 1982
1st Prize, European Broadcasting Competition, Bratislava, CSK, 1987

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