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What makes a genuine Delian project?

One passion of the delian::quartett is to venture (alongside its “normal” core business as a string quartet) into places where no one has ever gone before.

It all begins with a crazy idea. A daring notion beyond well-worn paths. The rest is extensive research and meticulous conceptual work — a journey across open country that sometimes takes months.

And at the end stands an adventure that the creators themselves wanted to see on stage: one of those extraordinary, often genre-crossing, present-day formats for which the delian::quartett is widely celebrated: innovative, lovingly crafted, moving, illuminating, amusing, and always distinctive. An experience you will search for in vain on your sofa at home.

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Biography

Adrian Pinzaru | violin

Andreas Moscho | violin

Lara Albesano | viola

Hendrik Blumenroth | violoncello

 

Original and brimming with esprit, dramaturgically daring and thrilling in its content: even longtime regulars of the concert series will find little in their memories to match an evening in which all these qualities were woven together as artfully and convincingly as in the performance of the Delian Quartet. […] If proof were ever needed of the ensemble’s extraordinary class — in these breathless seconds it flared up with the force of a supernova. […] Thanks for opening a new door into the world of music.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

 

The delian::quartett’s namesake is the Greek god Apollo, worshipped as the god of the fine arts and of the Muses — especially of music — and also called “Delian” after his birthplace, the island of Delos.

Since its founding in 2007, the delian::quartett has given performances acclaimed equally by audiences and press throughout Europe, in China, and — as a cultural ambassador of the Goethe-Institut — as far afield as Africa. Its 2009 debut at the Berlin Philharmonie was met with a standing ovation already after the opening piece. Since then, the ensemble has been a celebrated guest in venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Prinzregententheater Munich, Unione Musicale Turin, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna, Tonhalle Zurich, Beethovenfest Bonn, Kissinger Sommer, Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, südtirol festival meran, Rheingau Musik Festival, Salzburg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Schubertiade Roskilde, and many more. Its unconventional and richly allusive programming has long made the delian::quartett’s concert projects distinctive and a hallmark of the ensemble.

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ECM2743, Delian 'Im wachen Traume'

Im wachen Traume

Schumann/Reimann

Byrd/Pierini

Purcell

 

with Claudia Barainsky | soprano

released by ECM

 

 

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Kids' Concerts & Masterclasses

An investment in the future is passing on first-hand acquired knowledge about the culture and technique of string quartet playing. The delian::quartett’s tradition in this reaches back to the golden age of ensembles like the Amadeus Quartet or the Borodin Quartet.

And, as one would expect, the delian::quartett’s riotously funny children’s concerts likewise blaze their own trail.

 

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