One of the most inspiring, dynamic and charismatic ensembles on the music scene, the members of the Atrium Quartet have established themselves as performers of deep emotion, intellect, virtuosity and technical brilliance. Highly acclaimed by audiences and the press, the quartet has performed throughout the world. The quartet was founded in 2000 by students of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Joseph Levinson, a cellist with the famed Taneyev Quartet).
The Atrium Quartet became the first Russian ensemble to win two major international quartet competitions – the IX International String Quartet Competition in London (2003) and the V International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux (2007). The emergence of the quartet was also marked by wins at international competitions in Moscow, Cremona and Weimar in 2001 and 2002. Successful appearances at such competitions opened the door to the world’s great concert venues, among them the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, the concert hall of the Library of Congress (Washington, USA), the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Bozar in Brussels and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
This season, the Atrium Quartet is offering audiences the unique opportunity to hear all fifteen of Shostakovich’s quartets over the course of a few days. In the 2014–2015 season the quartet plans to commemorate the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with a marathon programme including all of the great Russian composer’s chamber works. The members of the quartet currently live and work in Berlin. The musicians perform on instruments made by Italian master craftsmen – two violins made by Paolo Castello (1770 and 1773), a viola by Lorenzo Carcassi (1775) and a cello by Giovanni Battista Ceruti (1798).
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