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How does playing together actually work? How do you go from 4 individual players to a group sound? How do you approach challenging chamber music literature?

During this intensive chamber music week, participants will have the opportunity to acquire or deepen the basics of playing together, gain new impulses and inspiration for their playing and discover chamber music from different eras.
 

Each ensemble receives daily lessons from the four musicians of the Malion Quartet. In evening workshops, special topics such as intonation or musical style from different eras will be explored together. The course is aimed at students and ambitious amateurs. Both permanent ensembles and individual participants are welcome. In addition to string quartets, we also welcome string duos, trios and quintets.

We are delighted to be one of the 38 string quartets selected for the newly founded MERITA Programme! Upcoming projects and concerts related to this programme will be announced shortly… Thank you so much to Le Dimore del Quartetto and all of the collaborating organisations involved with the launch of this wonderful European initiative.

Merita

Prizewinners‘ Concert

“The composer Johannes Brahms once said that all he thinks about is music. He confessed: “I’m in love with music – I love music, I think of nothing but music and only think of other things when they make music more beautiful.” Such an unconditional and devoted love for music as Brahms probably felt, could also be experienced on Wednesday evening at the prizewinners’ concert of the ensemble scholarship…”

Full article www.hfmdk-frankfurt.de (german)

This exciting opportunity was offered to us by the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. Three ensembles of high caliber, all students at the HfMDK, were chosen to play in front of a selection committee, who decided to award the Malion Quartet with a scholarship prize of 20 000€. We are enormously grateful to the HfMDK and the Friends and Sponsors of the University for creating such a wonderful scholarship specifically curated for musicians dedicated to making a career in chamber music.

A prize winners’ concert took place on 26th October 2022, in the großer Saal of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

After an intensive few days in Bonn at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, we were honoured to have been given the opportunity to play in the final. We came away with a scholarship from the competition, which includes many concert opportunities throughout Germany for the Season 23/24, as well as a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Große Fuge

A film by Andreas Kessler

We are delighted to announce that our music video got nominated for an Opus Klassik award, in the category “Videoclip”. We are honoured to be nominated alongside such great artists, as well as friends and colleagues.

“Haydn in Slow Motion – A Visit to a Rehearsal with the Malion Quartet”

On 30th May 2022 the programme “Haydn in Slow Motion – A Visit to a Rehearsal with the Malion Quartet” was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Led by the music journalist Marie König, and recorded by Max-Lukas Hundelshausen in the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, the idea was to condense the original concept from our festival into a 30 minute programme.