On October 9, German KUSS Quartet will perform an exclusive concert at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. As the press service at the festival reports, the concert will be held in the frames of the 20th edition of "Yerevan Perspectives" International Music Festival and will feature
Beethoven’s -String Quartet Op 59 “Serioso” F Minor, Johannes Brahms’s String Quartet Op 51 No 1. C Minor and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op 132 in A Minor.
The Berlin-based Kuss Quartet was founded by its violinists, Jana Kuss (first violin) and Oliver Wille in 1981, when they were only 14 years old. In 2002, the quartet acquired its superb violist William Coleman, who studied both in Salzburg with Thomas Riebl and Veronika Hagen at the New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkanian. Last but not least, the quartet was joined in 2008 by its exquisite cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan.
In early 2019, the Kuss Quartet was the first German string quartet to receive Stradivari’s legendary “Paganini Quartet” on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. The quartet played Beethoven’s complete string quartet cycle on these instruments in June 2019, by invitation of the Suntory Hall, Tokyo.
"Yerevan Perspectives" International Music Festival is an annual, year round festival which invites to Armenia top famous classical musicians, orchestras, ensembles and so on. The festival also organizes special projects by cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Armenia and with the other structures.
