Chaos String Quartet
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NOVEMBER 19 | 6:30 PM
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Join us for a concert by the Austrian Chaos String Quartet featuring Susanne Schäffer (violin), Eszter Kruchió (violin), Sara Marzadori (viola) and Bas Jongen (cello).
About the Concert
The Chaos String Quartet will take you on a journey through Austria’s musical heritage. The program includes two Viennese Classics: Mozart’s uplifting Mozart’s String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458, nicknamed “The Hunt”, alongside Beethoven’s grandiose String Quartet Op. 131 in C-sharp Minor. The ensemble will also perform “Une étoile dansante”, a piece written and dedicated to them by Diego Conti.
About the Quartet
Susanne Schäffer – Violin
Eszter Kruchió – Violin
Sara Marzadori – Viola
Bas Jongen – Cello
Founded in 2019 on the principles of chaos in the arts, science, and philosophy, the Chaos String Quartet has rapidly established itself in the international music scene. Selected as a “BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2023-2025”, the ensemble has been previously awarded at prestigious international competitions such as Bad Tölz (2023), Haydn (2023), ARD (2022) and Bordeaux (2022). Additional successes include prizes at the 2023 Heidelberg competition, the 2021 Bartók World Competition, and the International Premio V. E. Rimbotti in Italy in 2020.
The Chaos String Quartet has been invited to music festivals such as the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Mozartfest Würzburg, Les Musicales de Normandie, Davos Festival, Ravenna Festival, Lockenhaus Festival, Wien Modern, Festival de Musica Morelia and Upper Galilee Festival and to concert halls such as the Musikverein Wien, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie de Paris and Bozar in Brussels.
Besides their classical concert career, the quartet enjoys developing its own projects to make their repertoire more approachable and available to a diverse audience.
Mentored by Prof. Johannes Meissl in Vienna through the ECMAster program, the ensemble additionally completed a postgraduate course at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with the Cuarteto Casals. The young musicians received further musical impulses from artists such as Eberhard Feltz, András Keller, Oliver Wille and Helmut Lachenmann.
The emerging ensemble is a member of the MERITA Project and has been selected for the promotional program “New Austrian Sound of Music”.
Susanne Schäffer plays a violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore (c. 1711) on loan from the MERITO String Instruments Trust and Bas Jongen plays a cello by Hendrick Jacobs (Amsterdam, 1696), kindly lend to him by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (NMF).