„[… Inventive and lined with esprit, dramaturgically daring and exciting in terms of content:] even long-time regular visitors to the concert series will hardly make a find in their memories if they are looking for an evening in which all of these characteristics were interwoven as artfully and convincingly as in the performance of the Delian Quartet […] If it needed a proof of the extraordinary class of the [ensemble] – in these breathless seconds […] it appeared with the power of a supernova. […] Thanks for opening a new door to the music world.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

The namesake of the delian::quartett is the Greek god Apollo who was worshipped as god of the fine arts, the muses and especially music, and also named Delian after his place of birth, the island of Delos.

Ever since the year it was founded in 2007 the doors of the famous concert halls and important festivals opened for the delian::quartett. The echo of the ensemble’s first concerts catapulted them “practically overnight” (Die Rheinpfalz) right to the centre of the international concert scene. The debut of the delian::quartett at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2009 sparked off genuine torrents of enthusiasm; the Quartet was received with standing ovations already after the opening work. Since then the ensemble has performed, acclaimed by public and press alike, in major concert seasons in all of Europe and – as artistic ambassadors of the Goethe Institute – as far afield as Africa. It has been a celebrated guest in venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Prinzregententheater München, Unione Musicale Turin, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna, Tonhalle Zurich, Beethovenfest Bonn, Kissinger Sommer, Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Settimane Musicali Meranesi, Rheingau Musik Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival or Schubertiade Roskilde.

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