Hagen Quartett

The Hagen String Quartet is among the leading string quartets of its indigenous Austria, known because of its wide-ranging repertoire and its own very long association with Gidon Kremer as well as the Lockenhaus Festival. The four initial members from the Quartet had been all members from the same family members: Lukas, Angelika, Veronika, and Clemens Hagen of Salzburg, Austria. As associates of a family group of music artists, they played jointly in ensemble frequently. They stepped forwards as aspiring professional quartet players around 1980. Previously, that they had examined on the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Music Academies (Muskhoschschule) of both Basle, Switzerland and Hanover, Germany, as well as the School of Cincinnati. Their primary teachers had been Hatto Beyerle, Heinrich Schiff, and Walter Levin, with Cincinnati they examined using the LaSalle Quartet. That they had a chance to meet the essential early music expert Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who interested after that in previously repertory, and with Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, among the world’s leading exponents of newer music and uncommon repertory. This led to the Hagen String Quartet’s breadth of repertory, which expands from before Bach to the most recent functions of Witold Lutoslawski and György Ligeti. Kremer asked the Hagens to take part in the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Event where, in 1981, they received both Jury Prize as well as the Target audience Reward. In 1982 they received first reward in the Portsmouth String Quartet Competition. An integral part of this reward was a debut at London’s perfect chamber music and recital location Wigmore Hall, that was a great achievement. The quartet continuing winning prizes, acquiring firsts at Evian, Bordeaux, and Banff. Quickly their hometown asked them to execute in the Salzburg Event plus they became area of the occupied musical picture in the town, participating frequently in the Event, the Mozart-Week festivities, and in regular concert series kept in Salzburg. In addition they continue as regular individuals in the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Celebrations. The Hagen String Quartet became a special action with Deutsche Grammophon, which includes issued some recordings of their shows at Lockenhaus and a numerous others. The Quartet frequently performs with leading performers of your day, including pianists Paul Gulda and Oleg Maisenberg, violist Gerard Causée, and their instructor cellist Heinrich Schiff. Angelika Hagen offers retired from your quartet and been changed as second violinist by Rainer Schmidt.