Minetti Quartet
Minetti Quartet
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About Minetti Quartet
Since its founding in 2003, the Austrian Minetti Quartett has made its home in Vienna, steadily conquering a fixed place on the international string quartet scene. Ever since it was nominated for the European Concert Hall Organization ECHO’s “Rising Stars” cycle in 2008/09, the Quartet has made repeated guest appearances in Europe’s most distinguished concert halls in Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels and London, to name just a few. The ensemble is also at home at the continent’s major festivals, including the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, the Aldeburgh Festival, Salzburg’s Mozart Week, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Istanbul Music Festival. They are touring the U.S.A since 2005 and have also played in Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Japan and China. The Minetti Quartett is the winner of numerous international chamber music competitions. It also received the Austrian “Grand Gradus ad Parnassum Prize”, the Start-up Fund of the Austrian Federal Ministry and the Karajan Stipend. Contemporary composers are dedicating new works to the Minetti quartett and outstanding artists like the pianist and composer Fazil Say often share the stage with its members. Mentors and supporters of the Minetti Quartett include Johannes Meissl and the members of the Alban Berg Quartett at Vienna’s University of Music, where the quartet was founded 20 years ago. As participants in the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), they also received essential artistic impulses from Ferenc Rados, Alfred Brendel and members of the Artemis, Amadeus and Hagen Quartets. The Minetti Quartett’s name refers to a play by the writer Thomas Bernhard, who lived in Ohlsdorf in the Salzkammergut region, where the two violinists of the quartet grew up. The National Bank of Austria has lent the quartet two violins by G. B. Guadagnini (the “Mantegazza” of 1774 and the “ex Meinel” of 1770-1775) and a cello by G. Tononi (Bologna, 1681). Milan Milojicic plays a viola built by Bernd Hiller in 2009.
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