The 2026 festival edition features many talented young string quartets. In the program section Grass Roots, the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam presents three promising quartets. The winners of the top string quartet competitions are on hand with a program in which they stylishly convey their character as string quartets. With an inventive take on the repertoire and with their awareness of past and present, they represent the youngest generation of string quartets.

We proudly present Opus13, the winner of the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2025
Programme: Edvard Grieg: String Quartet

Poiesis Quartet, the winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2025
Programme: works by Sky Macklay, Kevin Lau and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

And Erinys Quartet, the winner of the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2025
Programma: Gabriella Smiths’s Carrot Revolution and Benjamin Britten’s String quartet no. 2