Quatuor
Allemand
(1985 - )
Depuis sa création, le quatuor Verdi s'est produit sur les plus grandes scènes européennes et américaines ainsi qu'au Canada, en Afrique et en Corée du Sud.
Il est également présent dans des festivals majeurs comme Schwetzingen et Ludwigsburg (Allemagne), le Festival Mozart de Lille (France), l'Eté de musique de chambre de Zermatt (Suisse), le Festival Ljubljana (Slovénie)...
Depuis 2003, le Quatuor Verdi à son propre festival annuel, le Festival Vielsaitig en partenariat avec la ville de Füssen in Southern Germany. This Festival is a mixture of concerts, master classes for chamber music and soloists, and a symposium on stringed instrument making. Vielsaitig is already known well beyond the borders of the city.
The Verdi Quartet has concertized with many partners, including Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel, and Martin Lovett (all of the Amadeus Quartet), Hermann Voss and Peter Buck (of the Melos Quartet), Bruno Giuranna, Francois Benda, Alfredo Perl, Günter Ludwig, Rudolf Meister, and Matthias Kirschnereit.
The quartet members are also in demand as teachers, individually and as a quartet, at the Universities of Mannheim (here, also, in their fifth year as quartet-in-residence) and Rostock, and for master classes and workshops in many parts of the world.
No stranger to the recording studio, the quartet is often to be found in particular in the broadcasting studio of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne. Here, for Hänssler Classic, it has recorded the complete Schubert quartets, the Verdi-CD on the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s death, and is at present working their way through recording the complete string chamber music of Johannes Brahms.
Susanne Rabenschlag, Johannes Hehrmann (v),Karin Wolf (a) & Zoltan Paulich (Vc)
