Goldner String Quartet
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Goldner String Quartet
(String Quartet) Biography:
The Goldner String Quartet was launched in 1995, its members having performed regularly together since 1991 as the four string players from the highly acclaimed Australia Ensemble (resident at the University of New South Wales). The Quartet is named after Richard Goldner, renowned pedagogue, inventor, and founder of the original Musica Viva Australia. The players are all well known to Australian and international audiences through solo performances and recordings and have all occupied principal positions in organisations such as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra. The Quartet regularly appears at major music festivals around Australia in addition to national tours for Musica Viva.. The members of the quartet have been a mainstay of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville since 1993. In 1997 the Goldner String Quartet made its debut at the Wigmore Hall in London, with return engagements there in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007 and has appeared at the UK festivals of Cheltenham, Newbury, Brighton and Aldeburgh, and at the "Saison musicale d'ete de Sceaux" in France. In October 2001 the Quartet made its American debut with concerts at the prestigious 92nd St Y in New York and in Washington DC and have undertaken several extensive tours of New Zealand. In July 2005 they performed at a number of European music festivals, including the renowned chamber music festival of Kuhmo, Finland. In 2006 the quartet was amongst a small number of international artists invited to the Music Isle Festival in Jeju, South Korea . At the 2000 Adelaide Festival, the Quartet performed a major retrospective of 20th Century string quartets, highlighting thirty-one of the most significant quartets of the century - a unique event in the chamber music world. More recently, the Goldner Quartet has collaborated with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in their festivals celebrating the works of Beethoven and Shostakovich. The quartet has an ongoing collaborative relationship with renowned Didjeridoo artist William Barton. The Goldner Quartet performed its first complete Beethoven Cycle for Musica Viva in 2004 - recorded live on ABC Classics. The Quartet has released Volumes 1 and 2 of the string quartets of Peter Sculthorpe on the Tall Poppies label and for Naxos, the complete quartets of Szymanowski and Stravinsky. Future recording plans include a disc of Frank Bridge for Hyperion, the complete string quartet music of Carl Vine and Volume 3 of the music of Peter Sculthorpe. Recently released, their disc of the music of Ernest Bloch with pianist Piers Lane for Hyperion has received several rave reviews and was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine: “Riveting playing and excellent sound make the Bloch pieces unmissable”. Several new works have been commissioned for the Quartet, from composers such as Peter Sculthorpe, Nigel Westlake, Carl Vine, Ross Edwards and Matthew Hindson including a concerto for string quartet and orchestra . The Goldner Quartet received the Australian Music Centre Award in 2000, for the 'Best Performance of an Australian Composition', for their performance of Carl Vine’s Quartet No.3. The Goldner String Quartet has collaborated with many international artists including pianists, Philippe Cassard, Piers Lane, Boris Berman, Steven Osborne, Daniel Adni, Maureen Jones, Irina Schnittke, fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, cellists Alexander Ivashkin, Philippe Muller, Robert Cohen, Torleif Thedeen, Young-Chang Cho and Yehuda Hanani, violists Rainer Moog and Brett Dean, violinists Dong-Suk Kang, James Buswell, Oleh Krysa, and guitarist Slava Grigoryan. The Quartet also has a commitment to teaching the next generation of chamber groups, and was recently ‘Ensemble in Residence’ at the Australian Youth Orchestra’s inaugural National Chamber Music Camp. The instruments of the Quartet are maintained by Mr Gabor Balogh, Master Violin Repairer and Restorer (Sydney). This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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