Atrium String Quartet

The Atrium Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 2000 at the Music Academy in St. Petersburg.

The members of the Atrium Quartet studied with members of the Alban Berg Quartet, the Danel Quartet and the Vermeer String Quartet. They studied 2006-2007 at the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam by Stefan Mett and 2009 with Eberhard Felz at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin.

Concert tours have taken, inter alia, the Atrium Quartet to Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, France and Hungary. In Germany, the ensemble at the Beethoven Festival Bonn, the Heidelberg Spring, the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, the Music Festival Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Usedom Music Festival, the Traunstein summer concerts and chamber music days Mettlach guest. In France in the spring of 2009, the Atrium Quartet made ​​his U.S. debut with concerts, among others in New York, Chicago and Washington, in the fall of 2009, followed by the Japan premiere.

Member (since 2000)

  • Alexey Naumenko, violin
  • Anton Ilyunin, violin
  • Dmitry Usov, Viola, 2000-2004; Dmitry Pitulko, since 2004
  • Anna Gorelova cello

Prices

  • 2001: 2nd prize in Moscow
  • 2002: 2nd prize in Cremona and Weimar
  • 2003: 1st Prize and Audience Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in London.
  • 2007: Grand Prix and prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work ( Prix MMSG - Mecemnat Musical Société Generale ), Bordeaux
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