vision string quartet
18 april 2024 / 9pm / the jam jar, bristol
100% funded (sold out)
Berlin’s ‘vivid, electrifying and fearless’ Vision String Quartet bring their unique live show to The Jam Jar, Bristol
8pm: doors open
8.30pm: last entry
9pm: vision string quartet set
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Please note that due to the venue's license, all under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
the venue:
The Jam Jar is a vibrant, volunteer-led community arts space in the heart of Bristol. Known for independent live music, they host artists from all over the world.
A converted old Jam factory on the edge of Old Market, the venue opened in 2014 as a well kept secret for live music fans in Bristol.
the music:
From performing in total darkness to welcoming guest electronic musicians and lighting designers, expect this show with Berlin’s Vision String Quartet to be “vivid, electrifying and fearless”.
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the programme:
Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz
Vision String Quartet - Spectrum
vision string quartet:
Founded in 2012, the vision string quartet has already established itself as one of the finest young string quartets of its generation. With a unique versatility that focuses on the classical string quartet repertoire alongside their own compositions of other disparate genres such as folk, pop, rock, funk and minimalist music.
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The four young musicians from Berlin who identify as much as a ‘band’ as a ‘string quartet’ are on a mission to re-address, with integrity, how classical music is presented and perceived by both new and traditional audiences.
The quartet experiments with concert formats that challenge perceived expectations whilst being true to their vision of the music. Performances have included Schubert Death and the Maiden Quartet performed in complete darkness, Beethoven Quartet in A minor Op 132 from memory, and experimenting with lighting designers to give further creative dimensions to their performances. Breaking new ground, they have brought these ideas to leading classical concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Oji Hall Tokyo, Philharmonie Luxembourg and London’s Wigmore Hall. Festival appearances include the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Trondheim Chamber Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival.
As exclusive recording artists with Warner Classics, the vision string quartet recently released their album Spectrum, with music that was entirely composed and produced by the quartet, together with accompanying music videos which the quartet directed, prodcued and curated themselves. In 2020, their debut album memento received an Opus Klassik Award for best chamber music recording. The quartet have achieved many other notable prizes in international competitions such as the 2016 Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Competition in Berlin and the 2016 International Concours de Génève. Testament to their charisma as well as their musicianship, not only did they receive First Prize in both of these, but all the audience and special prizes too. The Ritter Prize from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation followed in 2021, as well as the Jürgen Ponto Foundation's Chamber Music Prize (2018) and the Würth Prize (2016).
Recent highlights have comprised of tours to both the USA and Japan, including performances in New York, Toronto, Chicago, Tokyo and Kyoto. Highlights of the 21/22 season include European appearances in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Bulgaria and Norway as well as a world premiere of a concerto for string quartet and orchestra entitled technologia by Thorsten Encke with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. In 22/23 they will be Artists in Residence at the Beethovenfest in Bonn and the Bodensee Festival at Lake Constance and they will tour Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America.
The Quartet completed their chamber music studies with the Artemis Quartet at the University of the Arts in Berlin and with Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. In addition, they have received tuition from teachers such as Heime Müller, Eberhardt Feltz and Gerhard Schulz, as well as participating in masterclasses at the Jeunesses Musicales, ProQuartet in France and the Foundation Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz where they were scholarship holders.
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight99 at 9pm on Thursday 18 April 2024 at The Jam Jar, Bristol. First-come, first-served for the best views.
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