Pavel Haas Quartet

The Pavel Haas Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 2002 and has since won a number of international awards.

Named has the quartet by the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944), who was kidnapped in 1941 and murdered by the Nazis in the concentration camp Auschwitz -Birkenau, and is made up of first violin Veronika Jarůškova, second violin Eva Karova, Viola Pavel Nikl and Cello Peter Jarůšek. In previous appointments, the second violin Kateřina Gemrotová played (on the CD Janáček String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" and Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 2, " From the Monkey Mountains " ) and Marie Fuxová (on the CD Janáček String Quartet No. 1 " after Tolstoy 's ' Kreutzer Sonata ' " and Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 1 and No. 3 and Beethoven's String Quartet op 95 for the CD from the May 2009 issue of BBC Music Magazine ).

Awards

The Pavel Haas Quartet won in 2004 the " Vittorio E. Rimbotti " Price in Florence, in 2005 at the Prague Spring Festival in 2005 and also at the International Competition for String Quartets Premio Paolo Borciani. The European Concert Hall Organisation magazine named "Rising Star" for 2007 to 2008. Their first CD, released in October 2006, was awarded by BBC Music Magazine as "Chamber Choice ".

Recordings

  • 2006: Janáček Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"; Haas Quartet No. 2, " From the Monkey Mountains " (with Colin Currie, percussion ) ( Supraphon )
  • 2007: Janáček Quartet No. 1 after Tolstoy 's " Kreutzer Sonata"; Haas Quartet No. 1; Haas Quartet No. 3 ( Supraphon )
  • 2009: Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4, Op. 135 and Op. 95 ( BBC Music Magazine cover CD, May 2009)

Comments

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  • " Class of 2007 " (BBC Music Magazine 15:7, March 2007) p.29
  • Artist Biography - Intermusica
  • Premio Paolo Borciani
  • String Quartet (Ensemble )
String Quartet No. 11 (Beethoven)
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