There’s something magical about string quartet. For over 250 years, the most beautiful and thrilling music has been written for this specific combination of two violins, viola and cello.
Every two years, the String Quartet Biennale puts the string quartet in the centre of world wide attention in the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw. With over sixty events — concerts and a lively fringe programme of lectures, talks and masterclasses — and thirty string quartets from all over the world, you can immerse yourself completely in string quartet from early morning until late at night. Join us on our journey of tradition and experiment; to the familiar and the unknown.
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Save the dates!
String Quartet
Biennale 2022
29.1 - 5.2.2022
String Quartet
Biennale 2024
26.1 - 3.2.2024
The String Quartet Biennale is a forum for dreams to become reality, and for the wildest and usually unrealisable ideas to take shape and wing. For us, as quartets, it is a unique meeting place for quartets amongst themselves - something which rarely happens in the wild.
Xandi Van Dijk,
Signum Quartett
Eight days of floating in the past, present and future of the string quartet exudes a hypnotic power.
Joost Galema,
NRC, 2 February 2020
The greatest thing in life is when Utopia becomes reality. For me, that is exactly what happens at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam. For a full week, the Muziekgebouw and the area around it is like a village, completely occupied by the string quartet.
Marc Danel,
Quatuor Danel
The richness of the String Quartet Biennale is maddening.