Jerusalem String Quartet

The Jerusalem Quartet continues to be a regular and visitor to major venues throughout the world. With a growing reputation in North America, where they have played in venues in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Washington, the 2011-2012 season sees them embark on two extended tours in concert halls in the US and Canada. The Jerusalem Quartet also tour the UK this season, in a programme of Schumann, together with pianist Alexander Melnikov, celebrating the release of their new CD on Harmonia Mundi. Their European concerts include appearances at venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, London's Wigmore Hall and the Cité de la Musique in Paris. Further performances take them to venues in Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Lucerne, Dortmund, Perugia, Genoa, Siena and Le Mans.

During the past season, the Jerusalem Quartet concentrated on Brahms’s chamber music with special residencies at the Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, the Hamburger Ostertöne Festival, the Schubertiade and at De Doelen, Rotterdam. Throughout the 2009/10 season the Jerusalem Quartet performed their “Mozart Plus” project at the Wigmore Hall - focusing on String Quartets and Quintets by Mozart - together with violist Lawrence Power. The Quartet toured this programme in cities across Europe including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Munich and Zurich.

The Jerusalem Quartet records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi and their discs have been awarded numerous prizes. Their recording of Haydn’s String Quartets won the chamber category of the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Diapason d’Or Arte, while their release of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet received an ECHO Klassik Award in 2009 and was featured as Editor’s Choice in the July 2008 edition of Gramophone Magazine. The Quartet’s latest recording of Mozart’s String Quartets, released in March 2011, was immediately selected as Chamber Music Choice in BBC Music Magazine the same month. Their next release, a recording of Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Quintet with Alexander Melnikov, will be released in spring 2012.

In 2003 the Quartet were recipients of the first Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. They were also part of the first ever BBC New Generation Artists scheme from 1999 to 2001.

Friends of Music Concert Repertoire:

Wolf - Italian Serenade

Mozart - String Quartet No. 22 in B-flat major, K 589, "Prussian"

Brahms - String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67