The Schumann Quartet has reached a stage where anything is possible because it has dispensed with certainties. This also has consequences for audiences, which from one concert to the next must be prepared for all eventualities: “A work really develops only in a live performance,” the quartet says. “That is ‘the real thing’, because we ourselves never know what will happen. On the stage, all imitation disappears, and you automatically become honest with yourself. Then you can create a bond with the audience – communicate with it in music.”

A highlight in the 21/22 season will be the four concerts at Wigmore Hall London, where the quartet will be ‘Quartet in Residence’ this season. Furthermore, the quartet will go back on tour in the US, after a forced break. The string quartet will further be performing at Biennalen in Amsterdam, Slesvig-Holstein music festival and MDR Music Summer Festival and in Berlin, Schwetzingen, Frankfurt, Cologne and Dortmund and we are proud to announce that they also make a stop by Mogens Dahl Concert Hall.

The Schumann quartet: Erik Schumann (violin), Ken Schumann (violin), Veit Hertenstein (viola) og Mark Schumann (cello)

In the second part of the evening, the quartet will be accompanied by the pianist Fabian Müller. During the last seasons, Fabian Müller could establish himself as one of the most remarkable German pianists of his generation. He caused a great sensation at the International ARD music competition in Munich 2017, when he not only won 2nd prize in the overall ranking, but was awarded with not less than four additional prizes: the audience prize, the Brothers Busch award, the special prize Genuin classics as well as the Henle Urtext award.

Beside his projects as a soloist, Fabian Müller is also intensively devoted to chamber music. His partners in this sphere include artists such as Albrecht Mayer, Julian Bliss, Sarah Christian, Niklas Liepe, Daniel Müller-Schott, Maximilian Hornung, the Aris Quartett as well as the Vision String Quartet. Furthermore, he is the artistic director of the chamber music series Bonner Zwischentöne, which was initiated by him.

Photo: Harald Hoffmann & Neda Navaee