シンドリ・レデラー（ｳﾞｧｲｵﾘﾝ） アンドレア・ブルガー（ヴィオラ）
ベンジャミン・ライ（チェロ） アントニア・ケスター（ピアノ）
2007年結成。マドリッドのソフィア王妃高等音楽院でギュンター・ピヒラ―（アルバン・ベルク四重奏団）に師事するほか、マンデルリング四重奏団、ウーヴェ＝マルティン・ハイベルク、クレメンス・ハーゲン、メナヘム・プレスラー、アンドラーシュ・シフの指導、支援を受ける。
これまでにアリス＆エレノー・シェーンフェルド国際弦楽コンクール（中国）、アルメレ国際室内楽コンクール（オランダ）、チャールズ・へンネン国際室内楽コンクール（オランダ）、フィレンツェ国際室内楽コンクール（イタリア）で第１位を獲得。2017年にはドイツ・エコー賞クラシック部門で新人賞を受賞し、脚光を浴びた。2022年、ドイツで最も権威ある音楽賞の一つであるウルト賞を受賞（過去の受賞者：アバド、フォークト、ヴィトマンほか）。
ウィグモア・ホール、コンセルトヘボウ、ベルリン・フィルハーモニー、ウィーン・コンツェルトハウス、ベートーヴェン・ハウス、パレ・デ・ボザール、フェニーチェ劇場、チューリッヒ・トーンハレをはじめとするヨーロッパの主要ホール、ラインガウ、ロッケンハウス、モンペリエほかの著名国際音楽祭に出演。また、指導者として、ベトナムのサイゴン室内楽マスタークラス、マンチェスターの王立ノーザン音楽大学で指導を行うほか、ドイツではノトス室内楽アカデミーの創設者として若い音楽家たちに影響を与えている。
ピアノ四重奏の有名作品のみならず、忘れ去られた作品も取り上げ光を当てている。また定期的に新曲の初演を行っており、ベアート・フラー、ベルンハルト・ガンダー、ガース・ノックス、ブライス・デスナーといった作曲家達がノトス・カルテットに作品を献呈している。
2017年ソニー・クラシカルより「ハンガリアン・トレジャーズ」でＣＤデビュー。2021年「ザ・シェーンベルク・エフェクト～ブラームス：交響曲第3番（ピアノ四重奏版）他」を、2022年には最新アルバム「パリのバー～フランセ、タンスマン、ライタ」をリリース。
2024年９月、設立メンバーのチェロ奏者フィリップ・グラハムに代わり、ベンジャミン・ライが加入。
NOTOS QUARTETT
Sindri Lederer violin Andrea Burger viola Benjamin Lai cello Antonia Köster piano
Audiences and critics alike have lauded the Notos Quartet for its “virtuosic brilliance and technical perfection,” as well as its “sense of balance and interplay,” which make every detail of the composition audible”, allowing them to “reach the listener’s heart with its intimately played notes.”
Since its inception in 2007, the four musicians have garnered six first and many special prizes at international competitions in Holland, Italy, England and China, establishing themselves on a global stage. The quartet performs in renowned European concert halls such as the Philharmonie Cologne, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Wigmore Hall London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Tonhalle Zurich, the BOZAR Brussels, the Teatro la Fenice Venice, as well as at major festivals in Rheingau, Schwetzingen, Würzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lockenhaus, Usedom and Montpellier Radio France. Their performances also take them to distant destinations such as Australia, the USA, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. In 2022, the Notos Quartet was honored with the Jeunesses Musicales’ prestigious Würth Prize.
In addition to interpreting the well-known masterpieces, the quartet regularly commissions and premieres new piano quartets. New works dedicated to the Notos Quartet by composers such as Beat Furrer, Bernhard Gander, Garth Knox and Bryce Dessner underscore the ensemble’s commitment to contemporary music. The musicians equal dedication to lost and forgotten works of the piano quartet genre and their commitment to presenting these to a wider audience is reflected in their CD recordings.
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Their debut CD “Hungarian Treasures”, released by Sony Classical/RCA in February 2017, includes the world premiere recording of Béla Bartók’s piano quartet and was met with worldwide praise. The second album, “Brahms – The Schönberg Effect”, released again by SONY Classical, is dedicated entirely to Johannes Brahms and combines his famous Piano Quartet in g minor with a transcription of his 3rd Symphony, arranged especially for the Notos Quartet by Andreas N. Tarkmann.
In their latest album “Paris Bar,” released on March 25, 2022, the Notos Quartet unveils yet another world premiere recording: the piano quartet by Hungarian composer László Lajtha. Lajtha, often mentioned alongside Bartók and Kodály as one of the “les trois grands hongrois” (the three great Hungarians), regrettably did not receive the recognition he deserved due to political oppression.
The great interest in the Notos Quartet and its extraordinary programming is documented by numerous concert recordings, interviews and portraits on radio and television in Germany and abroad, such as on ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, BBC, France Musique, ORF, NHK Japan and IPR USA.
The quartet firmly believes in taking a stand on the social issues of our time. For example, the four musicians were the first artists to return the prestigious German Music Award ECHO Klassik, which had been awarded to them in the newcomer category in 2017. Their decision stemmed from the controversy surrounding the ECHO Pop Awards in April 2018, where an album promoting anti-Semitic and inhumane ideas was honored. This sparked a widespread protest movement, with prominent artists like Igor Levit, Daniel Barenboim, and Marius Müller-Westernhagen joining in. Ultimately, the ECHO brand was abolished in response to the outcry.
The artists’ social commitment is also reflected in their promotion of young musicians – another important aspect of the quartet’s work. The ensemble has held a teaching engagement at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, led the Saigon Chamber Music Masterclass in Vietnam and, in autumn 2015, initiated the Notos Chamber Music Academy, which since 2019 takes place in Weikersheim in collaboration with the Jeunesses Musicales Germany.
Besides Günter Pichler, the first violinist of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, with whom the quartet studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid until 2017, the quartet’s mentors, teachers, and supporters include, among others, the Mandelring Quartet, Menahem Pressler, András Schiff, Clemens Hagen, and Uwe-Martin Haiberg.
As Pirastro artists, the Notos Quartet exclusively plays on strings from the renowned string manufacturer Pirastro GmbH.
