AboutFauré Quartett
Following the guiding principle of its namesake, the Fauré Quartett is today considered one of the world's most renowned chamber music groups. In a short time, the German piano quartet conquered the great concert halls in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Milan, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro. "Their performances are everywhere met with superlatives," wrote The Strad after a concert at Wigmore Hall, and "...hitherto rarely heard interpretative details... an utterly delightful interpretation," praised the Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2006, the Fauré Quartett signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon and has since released piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms under this label. The latter recording was awarded the German Record Critics' Award in 2008 and won Germany's most important music prize, the "Echo Klassik." It reached a spot on the classical charts, making it one of the greatest German chamber music successes ever. The album "Pop Songs," also released by Deutsche Grammophon, as well as the most recent release of the "Wunderkind" CD featuring piano quartets by Felix Mendelssohn, also caused a stir.
The ensemble is a guest at major international festivals in Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein, Ludwigsburg, Schwetzingen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Montpellier, Sceaux, and Kuhmo. Soon after its founding in Karlsruhe in 1995, on the occasion of Gabriel Fauré's 150th birthday, the quartet was awarded numerous national and international chamber music prizes, including at the German Music Competition and the London "Parkhouse Award." In 2008, it was awarded the Art Prize of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe appointed the Fauré Quartett as "Quartet in Residence." The ensemble was trained by, among others, the Alban Berg Quartett, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn, and Misha Katz. In addition to their concert activities, the members of the Fauré Quartett regularly give masterclasses and teach as part of professorships, teaching assignments, or courses at universities in Essen, Dresden, Berlin, and London. Their students have won numerous prizes at the most important chamber music competitions (ARD, Melbourne, Vienna, Berlin, Bonn). "Through the courage and artistic continuity with which it champions a hitherto neglected chamber music genre, the Fauré Quartett certainly represents one of the most gratifying classical careers of recent years." (FonoForum)