Name: Bennewitz Quartet
Start: 2022-02-27T14:30:00
Location: Lesher Center for the Arts

Lesher Center for the Arts

Founded in 1998 in Prague, the Bennewitz Quartet immediately caught the imagination of the musical world.  Besides being Laureate of the Chamber Music Society of the Czech Philharmonic, the group won the award of the Spanish Queen for best chamber music ensemble of 2002/2003, as well as two special prizes at the prestigious ARD Music Competition in 2004. They soon won two leading chamber music competitions—the Osaka in 2005 and the Borciani in 2008, and recently were nominated for the Boreletti-Buitoni Trust award.  Beyond the classical canon, the Bennewitz champions Czech music, including works by unjustly neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann and Schulhoff. The group was quartet-in-residence at the Musikakademie Basel and, since 2017, has been the ensemble-in-residence for the Czech Philharmonic, performing Prague’s main hall, the Dvorak Hall.