ARMIDA QUARTET T Martin Funda, violin Johanna Staemmler, violin Teresa Schwamm, viola Peter-Philipp Staemmler, cello

“This is what Mozart has to sound like!” Süddeutsche Zeitung

Winners of the 2012 ARD International Competition (including the audience prize) the Armida Quartett have also appeared on the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme (2016-18) and the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) “Rising Stars” series in 2017.

Founded in in 2006, the Armida Quartett has studied with members of the Artemis Quartett and Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartett), also drawing musical inspiration from , Reinhard Goebel, Eberhard Feltz, Walter Levin and Natalia Prischepenko.

In 2020/21 the quartet give their debut in Berlin’s Boulez Saal. They return to London’s , Frankfurt, Stuttgart, the Schubertiade Festival in collaboration with Sabine Meyer, and Edinburgh’s Queens Hall and Amsterdam’s in a sextet programme with Krzysztof Chorzelski (Belcea Quartet) and Eckart Runge (formerly of the Artemis Quartett). As Guest Artistic Directors of the aforementioned 2021 Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Festival they will collaborate with , , Tobias Feldmann, Johannes Fischer and the Heath Quartet. They also feature composer Brett Dean and mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean for the world premiere of a new work for voice and string quartet.

Over forthcoming seasons the quartet is working alongside G. Henle Verlag publishers on a new edition of the Mozart quartets. The Armida Quartett has established its own Berlin concert series, “Mozart Exploded ”, which they have also performed in New York, exploring Mozart as the avant-garde alongside works of today’s composers including Frangis Ali-Sade, Sofia Gubaidulina, Johannes Fischer, Marco Nicodijevic and Jörg Widmann (also collaborating on clarinet). The quartet has recorded Bartók, Ligeti and Kurtág, Mozart, Beethoven, Shostakovich and a CD of fugues - “Fuga Magna” for CAvi records and BR Klassik, all of which have won critical praise. Current recording plans include a complete cycle of Mozart Quartets.

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