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Pavel Haas Quartet

String Quartet
Artists in Residence, Dvořák Prague Festival (2022 - 2025)
Artists in Residence, Wigmore Hall

Veronika Jarůšková - violin I
Marek Zwiebel - violin II
Šimon Truszka - viola
Peter Jarůšek - cello

  • The Pavel Haas Quartet is revered across the globe for its richness of timbre, infectious passion and intuitive rapport. Performing at the world’s most prestigious concert halls and having won five Gramophone Awards and numerous others for their recordings, the Quartet is firmly established as one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. 

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  • The Quartet appears at major venues including Wigmore Hall, London; Konzerthaus and Philharmonie, Berlin; Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Vienna; Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg; Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam; Tonhalle, Zürich; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome; BOZAR, Brussels; NCPA, Beijing; LG Arts Centre and Seoul Arts Center, Seoul and Carnegie Hall, New York. In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Quartet was invited to be on the cover of The Strad’s June 2022 issue and was the featured interview in BBC Music Magazine . It was included in the latter magazine’s 10 greatest string quartet ensembles of all time and described as “stylistically powerful and richly sonorous, [and] known for its passionate and fearless performances”. 


    Highlights of the 24/25 season include a return to Carnegie Hall in celebration of the Year of Czech Music in 2024, where the Quartet will play in events alongside the Czech Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonic Choir. Furthermore, the Quartet returns to the Wigmore Hall for three concerts; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Liederhalle, Stuttgart and Musikverein für Steiermark, Graz. Festival appearances include: Rheingau Music Festival, Schubertiade, Bath Mozartfest and the Dvorák Prague Festival. In December 2024 and March 2025 the quartet will tour North America.  


    Since September 2022, the Pavel Haas Quartet has been Curator at the Dvořák Prague Festival where they curate chamber music concerts including programming all the Dvořák String Quartets over three seasons. 


    The Pavel Haas Quartet records exclusively for Supraphon. Their recent recording of the Brahms Viola and Piano Quintets with Boris Giltburg and their former member, Pavel Nikl, was released to critical acclaim in May 2022. The recording was described as “radiant and vivacious” by The Strad, and was Presto Classical’s Recording of the Week. For their previous album of Shostakovich String Quartets (2019), they received the Recording of the Year by Classic Prague Awards and were named one of the 100 best records of the year by The Times


    The Quartet received their five Gramophone Awards for their recordings of Dvořák, Smetana, Schubert, Janáček and Haas, as well as Dvořák’s String Quartets No.12 ‘American’ and No.13, for which they were awarded the most coveted prize, Gramophone Recording of the Year in 2011. The Sunday Times commented: “their account of the ‘American’ Quartet belongs alongside the greatest performances on disc.” Further accolades include BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année in 2010 for their recording of Prokofiev String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2. 


    Since winning the Paolo Borciani competition in Italy in 2005, further highlights early on in their career have included the nomination as ECHO Rising Stars in 2007, the participation in the BBC New Generation Artists scheme between 2007-2009 and the Special Ensemble Scholarship the Borletti-Buitoni Trust awarded to them in 2010. The Quartet is based in Prague and studied with the late Milan Skampa, the legendary violist of the Smetana Quartet. They take their name from the Czech-Jewish composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) who was imprisoned at Theresienstadt in 1941 and was tragically killed at Auschwitz three years later. His legacy includes three wonderful string quartets. 

    2024/25 season / 560 words. Not to be altered without permission.

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Key engagements

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
Palau de la Musica, Barcelona
NCPA, Beijing
Konzerthaus, Berlin
Philharmonie, Berlin
BOZAR, Brussels
Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Göteborgs Konserthus, Gothenburg
Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
Wigmore Hall, London
Philharmonie, Luxembourg
Auditorio Nacional de Musica, Madrid
Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, Madrid
Herkulessaal, Munich
Carnegie Hall, New York
Auditorium du Louvre, Paris
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Rudolfinum, Prague
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
LG Arts Centre, Seoul
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Musikverein, Vienna
Tonhalle, Zürich

25/26 Programmes

PROGRAMME 1: CZECH FIRST HALF OF 20th CENTURY


Schulhoff: Five pieces for string quartet
Korngold: String quartet no.2 op.26
Interval
Haas: String quartet no.2 op.7 "From the Monkey Mountains"


PROGRAMME 2: CZECH AVANT-GARDE & DVOŘÁK

Kaprálová: String quartet no.1 op.8
Martinů: String quartet no.5 H268
Interval
Dvořák: String quartet no.14 in A-flat Major, op.105
or
Dvořák: String quartet no.11 in C Major, op.61


PROGRAMME 3: SCHUBERT & BEETHOVEN


Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D 703
Beethoven: String quartet in F Major op.135
Interval
Schubert: String quartet no.14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"

"One of the truly outstanding ensembles of our time"

Süddeutsche Zeitung

"They represent the best qualities of the Czech tradition – warmth, sonorousness, individuality, intensity; but what’s striking here is their fearless risk-taking, their fervency and the absolute confidence with which they propel you through these two masterpieces."

Gramophone

"What really sets this quartet apart is the attitude embodied in its name: an unwavering integrity, a belief that everything it plays is a matter of life and death."

The Times

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Counter-tenor

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Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

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Saxophone

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