Jerusalem String Quartet
November 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm at Plymouth Church
Mozart - Quartet in D Major, K. 575
Janácek - Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
Mendelssohn - Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2
"Superlatives are inadequate in describing just how fine this playing was from one of the young, yet great quartets of our time."
- Joanne Talbot, The Strad, May 2009
The Jerusalem Quartet continues to be both regular and popular visitors to major venues throughout the world. This season, they return to London to perform a series of concerts at the Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms. Other European dates include appearances at major concert halls such as the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Herkulessal in Munich and the Tonhalle in Zurich.
With a growing reputation in North America they have played in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Washington. The Jerusalem Quartet is quartet-in-residence at Musica Viva Australia which will see them give a ten-concert tour in November 2009 including concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. They also continue to be quartet-in-residence at the new auditorium in Valladolid, Spain.
The Jerusalem Quartet has an exclusive recording contract with Harmonia Mundi and their recordings have been awarded numerous prizes. Their latest recording of Haydn's String Quartets (Vol.2) received the Diapason d'Or Arte while their earlier recording, Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz won an ECHO Classic Award in 2009 and was Editor's Choice in the July 2008 edition of Gramophone Magazine.
Their Shostakovich String Quartet disc won the chamber category of the 2007 BBC Music Magazine Awards: the jury described the release as "challenging, unpredictable Shostakovich which always convinces even when the approach is new". Further awards include first prize in the 'most impressive performance by a (small) ensemble' category of the Vereniging van Schouwburgen en Concertgebouwdirecties Dutch Music Prize in November 2007.
In 2003 the Quartet was a recipient of the first Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. They were also part of the first ever BBC New Generation Artists scheme from 1999 to 2001.