Programme to include:

Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven
No. 3 in D major,
Op. 18, No.3

Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet
No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13

While the members of the Vogler Quartet have retained their youthful air, in 2010/11 they celebrate no less than 25 years of distinguished activity as an ensemble. Long recognized as one of the world’s leading chamber groups, the Vogler is as notable for each member’s prowess and personality as it is for the players’ collaboration in bringing chamber music to the world’s great stages.

Just a year after its foundation in 1985 in East Berlin, the Vogler Quartet caused a sensation at the Evian International String Quartet Competition, winning first prize (the first East German quartet to do so), the critics’ prize and a special prize for interpretation of a contemporary work.

This marked the launch of an international career which has taken the ensemble to the world’s most important musical centres. Other activities include giving masterclasses, maintaining residencies such as in Stuttgart where they succeeded the Melos Quartet, having their own series at the Berlin Konzerthaus, a festival in Sligo Ireland, a children’s music festival in Kassel and a chamber music festival in Homburg/Saar of western Germany.