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“Magic sounding, perfection of phrasing, free and exciting performance…”
“The Moscow Times”
These words fairly describe the musicians who have devoted many years to the art of quartet playing, musicians of the “New Russian Quartet”. The ensemble's name shows that the musicians remain faithful to the great Russian performing tradition and at the same time conquest the new peaks of chamber music performance.
Musicians of NRQ possess a great experience in ensemble performing, they have played in collaboration with such prominent artists as Jessie Norman, Siegfried Palm, Vladimir Spivakov, Natalia Gutman, Edward Brunner, Yuri Bashmet, Alexander Rudin, Dan Thai Shon, Alexander Knyazev, Edward Grach, Daniel Kramer, Nikolay Petrov.
Musical friendship connects the New Russian Quartet and outstanding musician Shlomo Minz. Their concerts in Italy, Switzerland and Israel were met by a storm of applause and followed by enthusiastic reviews. In September, 2010 at "Sion-Valais Music festival", Switzerland, this star union (where Maestro Minz played viola) have performed all six string quintets by Mozart in two nights. These events had a great success and were recorded by radio Espace2 and TV channel "Mezzo".
The creative range of a quartet reaches from the Viennese classics up to very contemporary music and jazz compositions, naturally includes the masterpieces of Russian composers. The New Russian Quartet performs in Russia’s best concert halls and participates in festivals throughout Europe and Asia, such as Asolo chamber music festival, Festival Delle Nazione in Citta di Castello, European music festival in Bulgaria, Mussorgsky Festival in Russia, Music festivals in Croatia, Montenegro and other. In 2008 Italian press named NRQ the best chamber ensemble of Russia. The performances of The New Russian Quartet have been broadcasted by Radio Suisse Romande (Switzerland), Orpheus Radio Russia, Russian and Bulgarian TV.
In summer 2009 NRQ members have lead a chamber music course at world famous Keshet Eilon master-classes in Israel. Alexander Galkovsky is a professor at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Musicians of NRQ are currently based in Moscow, Russia. They play rare Italian instruments by Panormo, Gofriller, Amati and Storioni provided by Russian State Collection with the kind support of the "Ernst & Young" company.
“…Musicians manage to transfer the mysterious spirit peculiar to music of late Brahms. Singularity of this performance full of sounds simultaneously powerful and soft, as velvet, in aspiration to step over border of chamber music and to enter the virtual symphonic measurement…"
La Gazzetta di Reggio Emilia
"…Deep penetration into each piece performed, amazingly beautiful sounding, the highest professionalism, these are the integral qualities of The New Russian quartet.”
Dmitriy Shebalin, violist of the Borodin String Quartet
“…Every performance amazes with depth of interpretation, carefulness to the smallest details and rare skill to achieve harmony of the form. It is possible only when each of participants of the quartet is an outstanding master.”
Andrey Eshpay, Russian composer
“…An alloy of the refined taste, depth and genuine sincerity in execution.”
“Culture”
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