“These are impassioned, richly coloured performances, superbly recorded and playing up the music's volatile contrasts… The quartet, subtly detailed, beautifully balanced, ardently played, is even finer, with an unforgettably moving account of the slow movement.”
Richard Wigmore, The Daily Telegraph, June 2006

One of the most dynamic and exciting young quartets currently performing, the Jerusalem Quartet continues to be in great demand all over the world. 2006/07 sees the continuation of their incredibly successful Shostakovich cycle at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and they perform the entire cycle of quartets in six concerts at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Vancouver and Dortmund. This season they will also be returning to the Wigmore Hall and the Cologne Philharmonie, as well as performing in Brussels, Paris, Munich, Luxembourg, Geneva, Chicago, New York and Washington. Next summer they make their debut at the Verbier Festival and will be performing a three-concert Brahms project in the Robeco Summer Concert Series in Amsterdam. They continue as Musica Viva’s Quartet-in-Residence from 2006 until 2009, returning to Australia and Japan in spring 2007.

Adding to their growing discography with Harmonia Mundi, their Dvorak recording with pianist Stefan Vladar was released in May 2006 and they will be making a substantial European tour together in November 2007. Their second recording of Shostakovich Quartets No.6, 8 and 11 (1, 4, 9 and having been released in May 2005) will be released in spring 2007. Their first CD of three Haydn quartets was released in spring 2004.

The Quartet was recipients of the first Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2003 and part of the first ever BBC New Generation Artists scheme between 1999 and 2001. They received first prize (as well as the prize for the best interpretation of 20th century music) in 1997 at the 'Franz Schubert and the Music of the 20th Century Competition' in Graz, Austria when they performed Kurtag's Twelve Microludes and Bartok’s Quartet No.6. They were also awarded first prize at the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Music Competition in 1996. The Quartet was founded within the framework of the Young Musicians’ Group of the Jerusalem Music Centre and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation in co-operation with the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, where they studied under Avi Abramovich.

The Jerusalem Quartet has performed alongside such eminent musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Jessye Norman, Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Tabea Zimmermann, Natalia Gutman, Itamar Golan, Boris Pergamenshikov and the Vermeer and Prazac Quartets.

The Quartet is very grateful to Daniel Barenboim who generously loans Jacqueline Du Pre's ‘Sergio Perresson’ cello to Kyril Zlotnikov.