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BIOGRAPHY

Quartet founded in 1983

First public performance with spectacular TV debut

Master Concert at the International Music Seminar in Weimar

World Stars like Joan Baez and Mercedes Sosa hire the Quartet
European tour for three voices (Baez, Sosa, Wecker)

Tours of South East Europe, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East
for the Goethe Institute and the Government or Foreign Affairs as cultural
ambassadors for Germany

Awarded the Prize for Culture by the City of Munich

Four successful tours of the USA (including appearances in Boston,
New York and Washington)

10th Anniversary celebrated at the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

World famous music publishers "Schott" undertake the publication of the
MSQ repertoire

First international concert to take place in Belgrade after the Peace Accord
of Dayton (live broadcast by the national TV network)

Guest lecturers at international music academies in Germany, Austria
and the USA

Appearence at major music festivals, such as the International Arts Festival
Tel Aviv, Nancy Jazz Pulsation, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival,
the International Bachacademy Stuttgart, Musikfestspiele Sanssouci,
Alte Oper Frankfurt, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Heidelberger
Frühling, MDR-Musiksommer, Berliner Festwochen, Gewandhaus Leipzig

One hour-long TV documentary by Germany public television station
"ZDF" on the Modern String Quartet



RECORDINGS

1986 - Elephants and Strings
1988 - Jazz für Streichquartett
1990 - MSQ plays Duke Ellington
1992 - Four Brothers
1993 - MSQ with John Kaizan Neptune
1994 - J. S. Bach: Kunst der Fuge
1996 - Four Composers


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