teachers
Heime Müller – violin >>>
Gerhard Schulz – violin
Matthias Kirschnereit – piano
Andreas Burzik – Practising in Flow and Flow for Ensembles >>>
Vogler Quartet
Tim Vogler – violin
Frank Reinecke – violin
Stefan Fehlandt – viola
Stepahn Forck – violoncello
recent activities
performances at the Wigmore Hall and Barbican Center (London), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (New York), Philharmonie and Konzerthaus (Berlin), Library of Congress (Washington), Konzerthaus and Musikverein (Wien), Chatelet and Cité de la Musique (Paris) and tours throughout Europe, the United States, South America, Russia and Japan, as well as appearances at the Salzburger Festspiele and Lucerne, City of London, Schleswig-Holstein, and Kuhmo festivals. The Cuarteto Casals residency at the Auditori in Barcelona, where it now performs an annual series of concerts, has been met with tremendous critical approbation and audience support. The quartet has accompanied the King and Queen of Spain on official state visits, performing for the Grand Duke of Luxembourg as well as at the Palacio Real in Madrid, on the Royal Family’s price-less collection of matched Stradivarius instruments.
The quartet has worked with important composers in Europe today, premiering many works, and has been heard frequently on the Spanish National Radio, Radio France, Deutschland Radio, WDR, NDR, SWR, RAI, NPR and the BBC and seen on television throughout Spain and Germany.
Cuarteto Casals is currently in residence at the leading conservatory in Barcelona, and has been profoundly influenced by intensive studies with Professors Walter Levin and Rainer Schmidt, as well as by graduate work in Cologne under the Alban Berg Quartet and Harald Schoneweg.
recordings
Cuarteto Casals records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi, comprising the string quartets Opus 33 of Joseph Haydn (2009), the quartets and piano quintet of Johannes Brahm (2008), the quartets of Maurice Ravel, Joaquin Turina and Eduard Toldrá (2007), the quartets of Claude Debussy with the Second Quartet of Alexander Zemlinsky, the complete early quartets and divertimenti of W.A. Mozart and the three quartets of J.C. Arriaga.