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Atrium String Quartet

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Atrium String Quartet

Alexey Naumenko, violin
Anton Ilyunin, violin
Dmitry Pitulko, viola
Anna Gorelova, cello

Currently residing in Berlin, Germany, the Atrium Sting Quartet was founded in 2000 in St Petersburg under the inspiration of professor Josef Levinson. Graduating from the St Petersburg Conservatoire in 2003, they then completed their education in Amsterdam coached by professor Stefan Metz at the Netherland String Quartet Academy (2006-2007) and in Conservatoire Hanns Eisler in Berlin (2007-2009) with professor Eberhard Feltz.  The Quartet has also been coached by musicians from the Alban Berg Quartet, Vermeer Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, and by Walter Levin.

The Atrium Quartet took first prize and audience prize at the Ninth London International String Quartet Competition in 2003, as well as being grand prize winners of the Fifth International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux in 2007.

Recent highlights for the Atrium Quartet have included recitals at the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, Library of Congress in Washington, Frick Museum in New York, Les Invalides in Paris, BOZAR in Brussels, De Doelen in Rotterdam, Conservatoire du Geneva, L’Auditori in Barcelona, Philharmonic Hall in St Petersburg, and Toppan Hall in Tokyo, as well as recitals at prestigious Festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schwetzingen Festival in Germany, Colmar Festival in France, Orlando Festival in the Netherlands, Haydn International Festival in Eszterhaza in Hungary, and Davos Festival in Switzerland.

The current season started with a debut tour of the quartet in Japan, immediately after which they were invited for a return visit in season 2010-2011. Concerts in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and London, Luzern Festival in Switzerland, festivals in the Netherlands, Germany and France scheduled for the current season.

The Atrium Quartet’s discography includes a CD of works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich made for EMI Classics and a DVD Live in Concert in the Netherlands with music by Tchaikovsky.  A recent CD was recorded in Paris in 2008 for Zig-Zag Territories (Beethoven Quartet Op.74 in E flat and Shostakovich Quartet No.5, Op.92), and was Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice in November 2008. Recently, they recorded a CD with works by Spanish composer Jordi Cervallo.

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2010 BISQC Quartets