The largest string quartet festival in the world.
String Quartet Biënnale Amsterdam 2024
Festival programme
Saturday 27 January
- 20:15 - Opening concert Danish String Quartet
- 22:30 - Late Beethoven: Opus 127
Sunday 28 January
- 11:00 - Sunday morning concert Danish String Quartet
- 13:30 - Bartók Cycle 1 - Belcea Quartet + Doric String QuartetDudok Quartet
- 15:00 - Bartók Cycle 2 - Doric String Quartet + Jerusalem Quartet
- 16:30 - Bartók Cycle 3 - Doric String Quartet + Jerusalem Quartet
- 20:15 - Evening concert: Britten, Schubert - Belcea Quartet + Raphaël Merlin
- 23:00 - Late Beethoven: Opus 131 - Marble Quartet
Monday 29 January
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Marble Quartet
- 11:30 - Masterclass - Jerusalem Quartet
- 14:15 - Extending String Quartet: Fellow Travelers - Ragazze Quartet
- 17:00 - Selected by / Marmen Quartet
- 20:15 - Evening concert: Smetana, Shostakovich, Beethoven - Jerusalem Quartet
- 22:30 - Late Beethoven: Opus 132 - Leonkoro Quartett
Tuesday 30 January
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Leonkoro Quartett
- 11:30 - Masterclass - Mark Steinberg (Brentano String Quartet)
- 14:15 - Extending String Quartet: A story across time - Lute Legends + Butter Quartet
- 17:00 - Selected by / Ragazze Quartet - Mendelssohn and Oh
- 20:15 - Evening concert: Spohr, Sirmen, Mendelssohn, Pleyel - Orchestra of the 18th Century + Kitgut Quartet
- 22:30 - Late Beethoven: Opus 130 - Brentano String Quartet
Wednesday 31 January
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Kitgut Quartet
- 11:30 - Masterclass - Amandine Beyer (Quatuor Kitgut)
- 14:15 - Extending String Quartet: Quartet & Country - Australian String Quartet + Lou Bennett
- 17:00 - Selected by / Animato Quartet - Keuris and Grieg
- 20:15 - Evening concert: Mozart, MacMillan, Brahms - Brentano String Quartet + Hsin Yun Huang
- 22:30 - Late Beethoven: Beethoven Re-imagined - Calder Quartet, Antoine Hunter + Zahna Simon (Urban Jazz Dance Company)
Thursday 1 February
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Simply Quartet
- 14:15 - Extending String Quartet: Around Bartók's Fifth - Brentano String Quartet
- 17:00 - Selected by / Doric SQ + Jelmer de Moed - Beethoven and Adès
- 20:15 - Evening concert: Stanhope/Bennett, Mozart, Britten - Australian String Quartet + Lou Bennett
- 22:30 - Late Beethoven: Opus 135 - Simply Quartet
- NB: The Key Note by Philipp Blom at 11:30 is free, but registration is required via this link
Friday 2 February
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Australian String Quartet
- 11:30 - Masterclass - Tabea Zimmerman
- 14:15 - Extending String Quartet: Island Suite - Solem Quartet + Ayanna Witter-Johnson
- 17:00 - Trust - Belifante Quartet + Karski Quartet
- 20:15 - Evening concert: MASS - Calder Quartet + Davóne Tines
Saturday 3 February
- 09:30 - Early Haydn - Tetzlaff Quartett
- 11:30 - Grass Roots - Quatuor Confluence, Isidore String Quartet + Quartetto Indaco
- 14:30 - Matinee - Doric String Quartet + Tabea Zimmermann
- 17:00 - Selected by / Dudok Quartet Amsterdam - El Turk and Beethoven
- 20:15 - Final concert - Tetzlaff Quartett + Signum Quartett
