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The Düsseldorf-based Orpheus Quartet’s concerts have inspired The Strad magazine to an admiring retrospective, concluding that ”…one had to marvel at the Orpheus Quartet’s sense of timbre, at its unified view of the music and its ability to create both textural variety and impetus.”
A truly international ensemble (Finnish, American, Dutch and Rumanian), the Orpheus Quartet won 1st prizes at every competition in which it participated: The Valentino Bucchi International Chamber Music Competition in Rome, 1988, The Karl Klingler Competition in Munich, 1990, and the first International Chamber Music Competition of Japan, held in Osaka in 1993. As a result it has received many invitations to perform across Europe, the United States, and Japan. The Orpheus Quartet also spends a lot of time commissioning and playing contemporary music and looks to all possibilities for broadening the standard repertoire with interesting and sometimes forgotten compositions.
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Emile Cantor was born in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and he started to play the viola, fascinated by its tonal beauty, at the age of 14. He went on to study at the National Conservatory of Paris as a student of Professor Serge Collot, who proved very influential to his stylistic and cultural development. Mr. Cantor was viola-soloist in the Netherland Chamber Orchestra of Amsterdam (under Szymon Goldberg and David Zinman), in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Copenhagen, and in the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (under Michel Plasson). READ MORE
Violinist Mark Gothoni started his musical training at the age of six at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki and subsequently became a pupil of Ana Chumachenko in Munich. Additionally, he received important impulses from Shmuel Ashkenasi in Chicago and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. As a winner of several international competitions, among others the Brahms Violin Competition in Hamburg, he was honored in 1991 as “Debut-of-the-Year” at the Jyvâskylâ Arts Festival, Finland. Since then he has performed as a soloist with well known orchestras and conductors of high international rank and appeared in most important concert halls like the Berliner Philharmonie, the Casals Hall Tokyo, the Osaka Symphony Hall and the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro. READ MORE
Laurentiu Sbarcea (Violoncello): Born in Rumania, he studied at the “Ciprian Porumbescu” Conservatory in Bucharest under S. Antropov after winning several awards in youth competitions. After his studies he received tuition from D. Shaffran and M. Gendron and won prizes as a cellist in international competitions such as Marktneukirchen und Colmar. He has lived in Germany since 1984 and is second solo cellist of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. His teaching is as varied as his activities include audition preparation and coaching of talented young musicians. He currently teaches at the Köln Hochschule, department Aachen. READ MORE
Violinist Timothy Summers is co-director of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, which he also co-founded in 2000, and has performed as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician across North America and Europe. Recently, he has performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on both violin and viola at the Aix-en-Provence festival and at venues across Europe. Mr. Summers served as second concertmaster of the Aarhus Symfoni in Denmark, second principal second of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm, and second principal second of the Danish Radio Orchestra in Copenhagen. READ MORE