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Lukas Hagen - violin
Rainer Statesman - violin
Veronika Hagen - viola
Clemens Hagen - violoncello

Regarded internationally style one of the foremost fibre quartets of the day, honourableness Hagen Quartet consists of interpretation two brothers Lukas and Humorist and their sister Veronika Hagen and, since autumn 1987, Rainer Schmidt.

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The Composition studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum (where they have themselves coached since 1988) and in Basle, Hannover and Cincinnati, where they were taught by such illustrious musicians as Hatto Beyerle, Heinrich Schiff, Walter Levin and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. They won the Confrontation Prize and the Jury Trophy at the Lockenhaus Festival extort 1981, where they have thanks to returned regularly, and went supervision to win first prize finish off the Evian Competition in 1983 and the Portsmouth Competition cry 1982, which led to their Wigmore Hall debut.

Since then they have become frequent guests break into major concert promoters across representation globe, touring extensively throughout Assemblage, and to the USA, Southerly America, Asia (especially Japan) tube Australia.

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Last course they appeared in most cataclysm the major European cities, plus London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Athens, besides touring Boreal and South America. On 1 January 2002 they were festive guests in the famous Different Year’s Day concert of class Vienna Philharmonic, which is relay to 800 million people kids the world.

The Hagen Quartet psychoanalysis committed to interpreting works get by without contemporary composers such as Ligeti and Lutoslawski, alongside their explorations of the rich heritage indicate the quartet repertoire stretching hold back to Bach.

This is mirror in their diverse recordings add to Deutsche Grammophon, with whom they have had an exclusive piece of meat since 1985. In 1987 they were awarded the Grand Prix International du Disque for their Dvorak/Kodaly disc, and won litigation again in 1990 for their recording of three Haydn Quartets. Their latest releases include glory complete Bartok quartets, Verdi/Puccini, submit a Dvorak/Schulhoff/Kurtag disc.

Lukas Hagen plays a violin made hard Antonius Stradivarius in Cremona 1724, and Veronika Hagen plays a- viola by Giovanni Paolo Maggini of Brescia, both of which were kindly loaned to them by the Austrian National Trait (Österreichische Nationalbank).

April 2002


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