Chaos String Quartet

Susanne Schäffer (violin)

Eszter Kruchió (violin)

Sara Marzadori  (viola)

Bas Jongen (cello)

The Chaos String Quartet as winner of the XI. Premio V. E. Rimbotti Competition in Fiesole, Italy, and awarded with the prize of the most promising newcomers at the 65th Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus, were invited to the Heidelberger Streichquartettfest, the Beethoven Frühling Baden, the Steirisches Kammermusik Festival, the Festival del Quartetto Firenze and the Wien Modern. Future engagements include Ravenna Festival, Davos Festival and Amici della Musica Firenze.The ensemble is currently mentored by Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet) in Vienna and received additional musical training from artists such as Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet), Clive Brown, Eberhard Feltz, Hatto Beyerle, Patrick Jüdt, Hariolf Schlichtig (Cherubini Quartet), Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), Corina Belcea, Rita Wagner, András Keller, Péter Nagy and Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet). Since 2019, the quartet has been working to complete the ECMAster (European Chamber Music Master) Programme.

Repertoire:

Preliminary        

Haydn: String Quartet No. 67 in F major, Hob. III:82 [Op. 77/2]

Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, BB 95 – 1. Allegro

Semi-final

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major and Great Fugue, Op. 130 & 133

Ádám Brandenburg: Distances

Final           

Schubert: String Quartet Movement in C minor (ʻQuartettsatzʼ), D. 703

Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, BB 95