Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No 7 F Sharp Minor, Op. 108
String Quartet No 11 in F Minor, Op. 122
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet No 3 in B Flat Major, Op. 67
The Jerusalem Quartet continues to be both a regular and popular visitor to major venues throughout the world. With a growing reputation in North America, where they have played at venues throughout New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Washington, the 2012-13 season saw them embark on two extended tours at concert halls throughout the USA.
Their European concerts have included appearances at venues such as the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Herkulessaal in Munich, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Future performances will take them to venues in cities including Luxembourg, Birmingham, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp.
Last season, the Jerusalem Quartet toured Great Britain in a programme of Schumann together with pianist Alexander Melnikov to celebrate the release of their highly acclaimed CD on Harmonia Mundi.
During the 2010-11 season, the Jerusalem Quartet focussed on Brahms’ chamber music with special residencies at the Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), the Hamburger Ostertöne festival, the Schubertiade and De Doelen (Rotterdam). Throughout the 2009-10 season the Jerusalem Quartet performed their Mozart Plus project at Wigmore Hall, focussing on the composer’s string quartets and quintets together with violist Lawrence Power. The Quartet toured with this programme to cities across Europe including Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Munich and Zurich.
The Jerusalem Quartet records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi and their discs have been awarded numerous prizes. Their recording of Haydn’s string quartets won the chamber category of the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Diapason d’Or – Arte, while their release of Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen quartet received an ECHO Klassik award in 2009 and was featured as “Editor’s Choice” in the July 2008 edition of Gramophone magazine. The Quartet’s recording of string quartets by Mozart, released in March 2011, was immediately selected as “Chamber Music Choice” in BBC Music Magazine the same month.
In 2003 the Quartet received the first ever Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. The musicians also participated in the BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme between 1999 and 2001.