Amaryllis Quartett
Biography Amaryllis Quartett
Amaryllis Quartet
was founded in 2000 by Gustav Frielinghaus. Its international breakthrough came with competition wins at the 2011 Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia and, four weeks later, at the 6th International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne. In 2012, the quartet was also awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Chamber Music Prize.
In its concert programs as well as its recordings, the Amaryllis Quartet strives to combine classics of the quartet repertoire with new works in unconventional ways, thereby opening up new sonic worlds. The world premieres of works by contemporary composers such as Johannes Fischer, David Philip Hefti, and Lin Yang are just as important to the quartet as the rediscovery of now-forgotten masterpieces, such as the string quartets of the Hungarian composer Géza Frid.
In its concert programs as well as its recordings, the Amaryllis Quartet is committed to combining classics of the quartet repertoire with new works in unusual ways, thereby opening up new sonic worlds. The Amaryllis Quartet's chamber music partners have included Dimitri Ashkenazy, François Benda, Reto Bieri, Barbara Buntrock, Patrick Demenga, Nobuko Imai, Volker Jacobsen, Thorsten Johanns, Matthias Kirschnereit, Jens Peter Maintz, Gustav Rivinius, and Barbara Westphal.
Concert tours have taken the Amaryllis Quartet to venues such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Vienna Musikverein, the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and the Daiichi Seimei Hall in Tokyo. The quartet regularly performs at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mosel Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival.
In addition, the quartet launched its own concert series in the Solothurn concert hall and, under the motto "amaryllis 3×3", is creating a cycle in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Lübeck Colosseum and the Bremen broadcasting hall.
