Sebastian Schmidt, violin

Nanette Schmidt, violin

Roland Glassl, viola

Bernhard Schmidt, cello

Biography

By winning a number of prestigious competitions – Munich (ARD), Evian and Reggio Emilia (Premio Paolo Borciani) – the Mandelring Quartet currently appears in the world’s great concert halls.

In addition to numerous engagements in Germany, the quartet appears in many of the major European concert centers, among them: Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Paris and Vienna. They have also performed in world metropolises such as New York, Vancouver, Sao Paulo, Algiers, Beirut, Damascus, P'yongyang and Ramallah. They have been invited to festivals such as Lockenhaus, Montpellier, Montreal, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival.

Exciting musical discoveries are often to be found in their repertoire and in their recordings, such as the works of the early Romantic French composer Georges Onslow; Friedrich Gernsheim, a close friend of Brahms, and the string quartets of the exiled German composer Berthold Goldschmidt.

Currently, the Mandelring Quartet is recording Shostakovich’s complete string quartets. The first volume earned this review: “If the following CDs maintain this standard we will receive the 21^st Century integral recording par excellence of Shostakovich’s quartets.”

They appear every year at the HAMBACHERMusikFEST, which they established in 1997. World-renowned musicians join the quartet at this annual musical celebration. The festival has become a venue for chamber music lovers from all over the world.

May 2006
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Exerpts from the Press

“There is a lot to like about this group, starting with a taut, throaty tone, a fluid approach to color and an impeccable sense of style.”

New York Times
November 2005

“The Mandelring Quartet belongs to some of the best string quartets on the international scene today.”

Klassik
2005

“The Mandelring Quartet combines the LaSalle Quartet’s intellectual vigor with the Amadeus’s unbridled passion to provide the best of both worlds.” (Brahms Quartet 51/1)

The Strad
February 2005

“The Mandelring Quartet is currently one of the world’s best string quartets.”

Manuel Stangorra
January 2004

“The quartet performed quartets by Beethoven, opus 95 and Ligeti’s ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’ -- both were simply sensational!”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
July 20, 2004