ABOUT US

The Frankfurt based Fabrik Quartet emerges for its committed, fresh and audacious interpretation of contemporary music. The four members cultivate curiosity and full-time dedication for the string quartet medium, and are equally-minded in the intent of embracing the full potential of nowadays music languages.

Since its creation, the Fabrik Quartet has garnered awards and support for their performances. The Quartet was awarded first prizes at the International Chamber Music Competition "A. Rubinstein" 2022 in Düsseldorf, the Third International Contemporary Music Competition Re_Crea in Castelló, Spain, and the Polytechnischer Competition at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik; in 2024 the quartet won 2nd prize and special prize in the “John Cage Award” in Halberstadt. As a recipient of the Kamar Percy und Ingeborg John-Stiftung award the Quartet recorded its first CD with the label “Bad Homburger Schlosskonzerte”.

The Quartet was one of three ensembles selected for the InSzene program through Podium Gegenwart of the Deutscher Musikrat, and is currently part of the String Quartet program promoted by the international platform MERITA.

Fabrik quartet is the ensemble in residence at the “Barcelona Modern Festival and Masterclass” in 2024 and “Mostra Sonora Sueca” in 2025. Engagements in the next season include performances for the Heidelberger Frühling, ECLAT Festivals. The Quartet has appeared in Festivals such as Winter Music - Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Fratopia in Alte Oper Frankfurt, ENSEMS, Mostra Sonora , F*Lab Festival and FestMus. The Quartet was invited to perform as soloist with the HR Sinfonieorchester and conductor Pierre Bleuse for the closing concert of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2023.

As working with living composers remains a primary interest of the Fabrik Quartet, they have had coaching with Rebecca Saunders, Helmut Lachenmann, Alberto Posadas, Liza Lim, George Lewis, Sebastian Claren, Jörg Widmann, Jose Manuel López López, Walter ZImmermann, Ulrich Kreppein and developed pieces with Jose Luis Escrivà, Anna, Sowa, Kathrin Denner, Rishin Singh, Esther Pérez Soriano, Camilo Bornstein and Pablo Garretón, and continue to seek out collaborations with young composers.

The four members met in 2021 as part of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where they founded the quartet after an intensive period dedicated to the study of I. Xenakis’s string quartet “Tetras”.

Within their education as a quartet, they have received masterclasses from Irvine Arditti and members of Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain.

From October 2024, the Fabrik Quartet is studying in the Konzertexam program at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt with Prof. Lucas Fels (Arditti Quartet) and Prof. Tim Vogler (Vogler Quartett).