String Quartet
Biography:
This has changed since it was founded in 1992 at the Salzburg Mozarteum stadler quartet dealt with contemporary music. Around 150 works, including numerous compositions dedicated to the quartet, have been premiered to date and show that the formation, which is still based in Salzburg today, sets standards in this field. In addition to developing contemporary literature, maintaining the traditional string quartet repertoire plays an important role for the stadler quartet; the constant confrontation with new music enables enlightening approaches to the supposedly well-known. For the stadler quartet, the focus of making music together is on striving for the best possible sound quality and making the structure of a work visible. Technical mastery and precision are the natural basis for this; however, the performance of a piece should never end in mere ›artistic‹ – even if the technical requirements reach the limits of what is playable.
The stadler quartet maintains close ties to many contemporary composers: collaborations with George Crumb, Chaya Czernowin, Henri Dutilleux, Johannes Kalitzke, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Peter Ruzicka and JFor the quartet, örg Widmann is one of the valuable experiences with regard to the constant striving for the best possible authenticity of the work.
The stadler quartet was a guest among others. at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, in the Vienna Concert Hall, at the WDR in Cologne, at the Munich Biennale and in Bilbao, Oslo, Rome, Seoul and Warsaw. The quartet was repeatedly invited to the Salzburg Festival. In 2003, the spectacular realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen's helicopter string quartet took place as part of this festival. A constant enrichment for making music in a quartet has been the integration into the oenm since 1997. Austrian ensemble for new music, the core of which is formed by the musicians of the Stadler Quartet. In 2005, together with the other members of the oenm, the quartet was awarded the 'Prize for New Hearing' by the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum.
FRANK STADLER received his first violin lessons at the age of five. His most important teacher was Helmut Zehetmair, with whom he studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum, graduated with honors and whose assistant he subsequently became. Studies with Ruggiero Ricci and master classes with Thomas Brandis, Franco Gulli and Ivry Gitlis followed. Frank Stadler has been the first coordinated concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg since 1999. In 2011 he played as a soloist in the Musikverein in Vienna. He has been invited as guest concertmaster by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Nuremberg Philharmonic, the Camerata Salzburg and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Frank Stadler is currently leading a violin class at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
The Hungarian IZSO BAJUSZ comes from Vojvodina, where his musical career began. His studies led him to the Graz University of Music, first in the class of Thomas Zehetmair, later with Helmut Zehetmair and Erich Höbarth. This was followed by studies with Lukas Hagen at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In 2000 Izso Bajusz was concert master in the RIAS youth orchestra in Berlin and received fourth prize at the International Alps-Adriatic Competition in Gorizia. He gives concerts regularly with the Camerata Salzburg, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Since autumn 4 he has been a violinist in the stadler quartet and a member of the oenm.
PREDRAG KATANIC studied with Thomas Riebl at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He also began teaching as an assistant in Thomas Riebl's class. 2003-2008 he taught at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; also since 2003 he has held a professorship at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Predrag Katanic has been a violist in the stadler quartet since 1997 and a member of the oenm.
PETER SIGL lives in Salzburg as a freelance musician and is primarily concerned with contemporary forms of music. In addition, he deals with historical performance practice and especially baroque music. He is artistic director and cellist of the oenm, cellist in the stadler quartet and in the Concentus Musikus Wien under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Albums:
String Quartet Nos. 3 & 4 – Eight Movements after Hölderlin Fragments:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
