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• Short biography
• Biography
• Concert dates
• Photos
• Discography

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Thomas Zehetmair, violin
Kuba Jakowicz, violin
Ruth Killius, viola
Ursula Smith, cello

The Zehetmair Quartet embarked upon their first concert tour in 1998, which led to immediate reinvitations from all promoters. The quartet is regularly invited to appear in the US and Japan and makes annual European tours. It is also a welcome guest at major international music festivals.

The Zehetmair Quartet has recorded Bartók's Fourth String Quartet and Hartmann's First Quartet as well as Schumann's First and Third String Quartets. Both recordings have won several awards, including the Gramophone Award (Record of the Year), the Diapason d'Or, and the Klara Prize for the best international production of the year. Their latest CD of Hindemith’s Quartet No 4 Bartok’s Quartet No 5, was honored by the press as a reference recording and was awarded with the Diapason d’Or of the Year.

In February 2008, the Zehetmair Quartet gave the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's Second String Quartet, which he has dedicated to the Zehetmair Quartet.

Future Engagements
In the 2010/11 season the Zehetmair Quartet debuts at the Festspiele Salzburg and appears again at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Further concerts lead the Quartet to e.g. Brügge, Luxemburg, and London, where it performs Beethoven’s String quartet op. 131 and Schostakowitsch’s String quartet op. 15. Furthermore, a new recording is to be released, dedicated to works by Holliger and Beethoven.
For 2011 the Zehetmair Quartet has already been re-invited to the Festspiele Salzburg to present Beethoven’s String quartet’s op. 132 and op. 135.