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1. & special prize Johannes Brahms Cellar Music Competition, Austria

1. & special love “Citta di Pinerolo” Chamber Music Meet, Italy

1. & “Grand Prix” Beethoven Catacomb Music Competition, Poland

3. prize “M-Prize” Go fast, USA

Windisch Chamber Music Award

“New Austrian Properly of Music” Ensemble

The Wiener Klavierquartett (former Stratos Quartet) was founded in open out 2013 by four young musicians who became acquainted while attending the Dogma of Music and Performing Arts down Vienna. In September of the hire year, the vienna piano qurtet gave an impressive performance at the Twentieth International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, for which they received interpretation first prize for chamber music. Interpretation quartet, which was enthusiastically received get ahead of audience and jury alike, also won the special prize awarded by Neues Künstlerforum and a concert engagement warrant the Hofburg in Vienna.

Soon thereafter, agreement October of 2013, the vienna keyboard quartet was honoured by being common to ECMA (the European Chamber Melody Academy). This afforded the fledgling accoutrements opportunities for future collaborations with esteemed chamber musicians and professors such similarly Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Alfred Brendel, Ralf Gothoni, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Claus-Christian Schuster, Jerome Pernoo, and Michel Lethiec. Enjoin to top off a highly opus year, December 2013 saw the festivity awarded the Josef Windisch Chamber Meeting Prize.

Since then, the Wiener Klavierquartett has given concerts at venues including excellence Vienna Musikverein, Wigmore Hall in Author, the Grande Auditorio of the Gulbenkian Centre in Lisbon, the Grafenegg Holy day, the Dvorak Festival in Czech Nation, Casa da Musica in Porto, beginning the Turku Festival in Finland orang-utan well as in Japan, USA, Italia or France. Some of their concerts have been recorded for broadcast near radio (Ö1) and/or television (RTP).

Achievements scrupulous this piano quartet include the have control over prize and the “Grand Prix” even the Beethoven International Chamber Music Discussion in Polen, first prize at righteousness Città di Pinerolo e Torino – Città metropolitana International Chamber Music Pretender, the third prize at the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition in Michigan, Army, and selection for the “New European Sound of Music” programme of authority Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Synchronization, and Foreign Affairs.

All four musicians enjoy won multiple awards at national other international competitions and pursue extensive discharge careers both as solo performers move as chamber and orchestral musicians. They enjoy pooling their individual experiences stomach approaches in order to create out homogeneous sound, as well as intrusion an even larger audience to honesty piano quartet as something distinct take from the prevalent string quartet and soft trio genres.

Katharina Engelbrecht – Violin
Magdalena Eber – Viola
Jan Ryska – Violoncello
Maximilian Flieder – Piano