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At the invitation of the Berliner Philharmoniker
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The Leonkoro Quartet has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success. Founded in 2019, the ensemble is already at home on international concert stages, making its celebrated Philharmonie debut in February 2024. “The Leonkoro Quartet’s risk-conscious power of intensity is legendary. Its virtuosity is unbelievably natural,” wrote the Tagesspiegel afterwards. The young musicians return this season – with an energetic string quartet by our composer in residence Wolfgang Rihm, who died in July of this year, a wonderfully melodic opus by Felix Mendelssohn, and a key work from Beethoven’ s late oeuvre.
Artists
Leonkoro Quartet:
Jonathan Schwarz violin
Amelie Wallner violin
Mayu Konoe viola
Lukas Schwarz cello
Programme
Wolfgang Rihm
String Quartet No. 1, op. 2
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E minor, op. 44 No. 2
Interval
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in A minor, op. 132
Chamber Music Hall
11 to 29 €
Introduction
19:30
Series T: Quartet
Biography
Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonkoro Quartet "has an enormous stage presence, glows for the music, takes full risks and amazes with its sensitivity to the respective sonority of the pieces," according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Rarely has a young string quartet established itself on the international stage at such breathtaking speed; the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the ensemble’s "youthful joy of sound and fiery vitality". The quartet - whose name is based on the Esperanto word for "lion heart" - is framed by the brothers Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz on first violin and cello, while Amelie Wallner on second violin and Mayu Konoe on viola provide the middle voices.
In addition to studying chamber music with Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet) at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, the quartet is trained by Günter Pichler (primarius of the Alban Berg Quartet) at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía Madrid. The young ensemble’s major international breakthrough came in 2022, with the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize, which is awarded every two years for outstanding string quartets, first prizes at string quartet competitions at Wigmore Hall and in Bordeaux, and inclusion in the BBC's New Generation Artist program. In the current season, the Leonkoro Quartet will make a number of important debuts, including at the Salzburg Festival, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Bozar Brussels. It is also going on tour in the USA and is now returning to the Philharmonie Berlin after its successful debut last season.
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