Festival

Kandinsky Quartet

Hannah Kandinsky violin

Israel Gutiérrez violin

Ignazio Alayza viola

Antonio Gervilla Díaz cello

 

 

Clara Iannotta A Failed Entertainment (2013)

Georg Friedrich Haas Streichquartett No. 10 (2016)

 

Further program information

The Kandinsky Quartet, founded in 2020 and based in Vienna as students of Johannes Meissl, began a master's program with Quatuor Ébène at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in March 2023. Coaching sessions with renowned string quartets such as the Arditti Quartet, Kuss Quartet, Ysaÿe Quartet, Cuarteto Casals, Quatuor Mosaïques, Artis Quartet, Quatuor Diotima or the Alban Berg Quartet, as well as lessons with soloists and recognized personalities of the chamber music scene (including Nicolas Altstaedt, Bruno Giuranna, Amihai Grosz, Dirk Mommertz, Mathieu Herzog, Gabor Takacs-Nagy and Elisabeth Leonskaja, with whom the quartet regularly performs together) also contribute to its outstanding expertise for both contemporary and classical repertoire. In April 2024, the quartet won a first prize at the Gasteig Competition in Munich, and is also a winner of the Verbier Festival Anniversary Prize 2023, the Salzburg International Mozart Competition and the Boccherini Competition. Furthermore it was selected for the EU-funded MERITA project and holds the title of Artists in Residence at the concert cycle ArbeiterInnenkonzerte in Vienna – an outreach project dealing with the cultural supply in social housing projects. It has also been appointed String Quartet in Residence for the College Musica program for the 2024 season.

At its debut concert at impuls, the Kandinsky Quartet presents the 10th, penultimate string quartet by Georg Friedrich Haas, which is to be played in complete darkness – a special challenge for the musicians. Haas: "Composing for darkness is fundamentally different from traditional composing: you do not directly score the piece – you compose a process for individuals, forced to perform in isolation, having only aural contact with their partners. " It is preceded by "A Failed Entertainment" by Clara Iannotta, who teaches at the impuls Academy as does the Quatuor Diotima, for which she wrote the work. In the composition she intensively explored the topic of form and time – her "first attempt at working beyond the sound itself," as she once put it.