The Stadler Quartet was founded in Salzburg in 1992 by the Mozarteum Orchestra´s current concertmaster Frank Stadler. The quartet´s members (Frank Stadler, Izso Bajusz, Predrag Katanic, and Peter Sigl) are also members of the renowned “Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik”. Together, they form the core of the versatile ensemble, which performs a wide range of music but is particularly committed to contemporary music. The Stadler Quartet has likewise made it their goal to devote themselves to the preparation and study of contemporary works, including the most recent compositions. Since its founding the ensemble premiered around 150 works, many dedicated to them. The repertoire also includes the key works and the standard repertoire of the 20th-century. However, the basis of their musicmaking remains the great works of the classical and romantic string-quartet tradition. This diversity has earned the quartet an excellent reputation on the concert stage, well beyond specialist circles.
The Stadler Quartet highly values its on-going collaboration with contemporary composers, including George Crumb, Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Ruzicka, Jörg Widmann and Chaya Czernowin. The quartet´s appearance in the Salzburger Festival and their numerous concerts and concert series in Salzburg ("ASPEKTE" festival, among others) serve to demonstrate yet again the quality of the quartet and their esteem in the eyes of the public and music circles.
One of the peaks in the Stadler Quartet´s career was its spectacular interpretation of Karlheinz Stockhausen´s Helicopter Quartet in the Salzburg Festival.
The four artists have toured Holland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Norway, Italy, Japan, Korea and Brasil.
They received the prize for "Neues Hören" from the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum.
In 2005, the Stadler Quartet interpreted (in image and sound) Steve Reich´s work "Different Trains" for a documentary film about Betty Freeman. The first CD was dedicated to microtonal music, which has decisively enhanced their differentiated sound palette. In spring 2010 they released a CD and DVD with the quartets of Helmut Lachenmann.
April 2012
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