"Revelation of the year" De Morgen, 19 April 2005
After several years of playing chamber music together in different combinations, including as a string quartet since the summer of 2002, Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras founded the Arcanto Quartet. Consisting of four renowned instrumentalists who have been better known as soloists until now, this new quartet has already attracted a great deal of attention in the classical music world. In addition to their love of music and their mutual friendship, the members of the Arcanto Quartet share the desire to dedicate themselves to the great enjoyment and the high demands of string quartet playing. The Arcanto Quartet's debut concert took place highly successfully in June 2004 in Stuttgart. In season 2004/05, they gave their debuts at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, Vredenburg Utrecht, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Conservatoire Royal Brussels, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele and Leif Ove Andsnes' Chamber Music Festival in Risør, Norway. Highlights of season 2005/06 are their London debut in February 2006 at London's Wigmore Hall, and concerts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in Milan. Plans for the following season include their first tour to Japan as well as concerts at the Philharmonie Cologne, Wigmore Hall, Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, Megaron Athens and Bozar Brussels.
After several years of playing chamber music together in different combinations, including as a string quartet since the summer of 2002, Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras founded the Arcanto Quartet. Consisting of four renowned instrumentalists who have been better known as soloists until now, this new quartet has already attracted a great deal of attention in the classical music world. In addition to their love of music and their mutual friendship, the members of the Arcanto Quartet share the desire to dedicate themselves to the great enjoyment and the high demands of string quartet playing. The Arcanto Quartet's debut concert took place highly successfully in June 2004 in Stuttgart. In season 2004/05, they gave their debuts at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, Vredenburg Utrecht, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, Conservatoire Royal Brussels, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele and Leif Ove Andsnes' Chamber Music Festival in Risør, Norway. Highlights of season 2005/06 are their London debut in February 2006 at London's Wigmore Hall, and concerts at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and in Milan. Plans for the following season include their first tour to Japan as well as concerts at the Philharmonie Cologne, Wigmore Hall, Auditorio Nacional de Musica Madrid, Megaron Athens and Bozar Brussels.