The Pavel Haas Quartet has been called “the world’s most exciting string quartet” (Gramophone). Since winning the Paolo Borciani competition in Italy in spring 2005, they have established themselves as one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, performing at the world’s most prestigious concert halls and recording six award-winning CDs. Based in Prague, the quartet studied with Milan Skampa, the legendary violist of the Smetana Quartet, and still enjoy a close relationship with him.

 

 

In the 2017/18 season, the quartet gave their debuts at Vienna Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin and the Taipei Concert Hall. They performed Martinů's Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra with the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra under Tomáš Netopil in the orchestra's season-opening concerts. They returned to the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, LG Arts Center Seoul, SWR Schwetzinger Musikfestspiele, and tour to the US and Asia.

 

Program
Schubert
String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D.703, “Quartettsatz”

 

Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life”

 

- Intermission -

 

Dvorák
String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat major, Op.105, B.193