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This quartet was founded in
1974 by Irvine Arditti while he was a student at the Royal Academy of
Music. Known for its
performances and recordings of contemporary music, it has had hundreds of pieces
written for it since it began and has premiered performances of works by
composers that include Elliott Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Gyorgy
Ligeti.
The members conduct workshops and masterclasses
internationally and were resident string tutors at the Darmstadt Summer
Courses for New Music from 1982-1996.
The ensemble has recorded over 150 CDs which include the complete
quartets of Luciano Berio, the complete Second
Viennese School's
string quartets and music by many leading contemporary composers. The ensemble was awarded the Ernst
von Siemens Music Prize for lifetime achievement
in 1999 and it has also won other awards including Gramophone Awards in
1999 and 2002 and several Deutsche Schallplatter Preis.
Members
Irvine Arditti
(1974-Present) (violin)
Levine Andrade (1974-1990)
(viola)
Lennox Mackenzie (1974-1983)
(second violin)
John Senter
(1974-1976) (cello)
Helen Liebmann
(1976-1977) (cello)
Rohan
de Saram (1977-2005) (cello)
Alexander Balanescu (1983-1985) (second violin)
David Alberman
(1985-1994) (second violin)
Garth Knox (1990-1997)
(viola)
Graeme
Jennings (1994-2005) (second violin)
Dov
Scheindlin (1998-2002) (viola)
Ralf Ehlers (2003-Present)
(viola)
Lucas Fels
(2005-Present) (cello)
Ashot
Sarkissjan (2005-Present) (second violin)
Thomas
Ades recordings
Quintet for Piano and Strings
EMI 57664 (CD: Ades:
Piano Quintet/Schubert:
"Trout" Quintet)
Piano - Thomas Ades
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arditti_Quartet
- http://www.ownvoice.com/ardittiquartet/biography.htm
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