The ULYSSES Platform supports emerging European ensembles, programming concerts where a new repertoire is promoted, thanks to commissions and reruns.

Recently selected as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2023-2025, the Chaos String Quartet is rapidly establishing itself on the international music scene. The combination of tradition and contemporary tendencies is inscribed in the string quartet’s DNA, with the ensemble also embracing interdisciplinary performance projects and children’s concerts.

In the context of the ULYSSES Platform, the Chaos String Quartet takes part in two events at impuls 2025.

1 – For their first appearance at impuls, the four musicians span more than a century of music history, including a graphic score as well as a late composition by Josef Matthias Hauer.

Date and venue: 18 February 2025, MUMUTH. György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz

Programme:

Anton Webern 5 Sätze für Streichquartett op. 5 (1909)

György Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati Pluriel (1991)

Francesca Verunelli Secondo Quartetto (2015-2016)

György Kurtág Officium Breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op. 28, for string quartet (1988/1989)

Josef Matthias Hauer Zwölftonspiel für Streichquartett (1957)

2 – The Chaos String Quartet was further invited by the impuls Academy 2025 to join and work with Quatuor Diotima, one of the most in-demand string quartets in the world today. In addition, a Call for Scores was sent out to connect young composer Academy participants with Quatuor Diotima for feedback, readings and more intense rehearsals, and to work together with emerging string quartets on site,  including Chaos.

Yianni Frantzeskakis | Finbar Hosie | Mikel Iturregi | Siho Kim | Egemen Kurt | Anton Schukau | Davide Wang composer

Date and venue: 26 February 2025, TiP . Theater im Palais, Leonhardstraße 19, 8010 Graz

Chaos String Quartet

Susanne Schäffer violin
Eszter Kruchió violin
Sara Marzadori viola
Bas Jongen cello

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