Alinea Quartet

Mario Sögtrop | Raphael Schönball | Fanny Schell | David Fuchs

About us

The
Alinea Quartet

In typography, the "Alinea" symbol stands for the beginning of a new thought. The young Alinea string quartet, based in Munich and founded in 2019, has set out to break away from the norms of both how and where to perform the great quartet repertoire.

To achieve this, they are looking to establish a dialogue with their audiences in conversational recitals, constantly seeking to engage with different artforms and experimenting with innovative concert formats. This approach led to performances in places as diverse as the MAAT Museum Lisbon, Cambridge University and the 59th Venice Biennale.

Apart from studying and performing the traditional quartet repertoire, the Alinea Quartet strives to explore further by creating their own arrangements of both classical and jazz music.

At the XII. Concorso Musicale Cittá di Filadelfia, the Alinea Quartet won the first prize and the special prize „Paolo Serrao“. The ensemble has received advice and input from renowned musicians such as the Jerusalem Quartet, the Goldmund Quartet, the Vision String Quartet, Prof. Jörg Widmann, Prof. Oliver Wille from the Kuss Quartet and Prof. Eckart Runge from the Artemis Quartet.

In 2020, the Alinea Quartet was granted a scholarship by the Brahms Society Baden-Baden. In 2021, they were nominated for the Special Prize “Ton und Erklärung” by the Kulturkreis des Bundes der deutschen Industrie (Cultural Society of the Federation of German Industry). In the season of 2021/22, they are participating in the professional training programme of ProQuartet in Paris.

The Quartet was selected to participate in „MUSA – European Young Musicians Soft Skills Alliance“, an Erasmus+ programme seeking to enhance the entrepeneurial skills of musicians. They've performed in Germany, Italy, Portugal, France and Great Britain.

The Alinea Quartet performs on a set of instruments by the Cremonese luthier Stefano Conia, which was provided to them with the generous support of The String Circle.

XII. International Competition of Classical Music
Filadelfia, Italy

1. Prize

Special Prize „Paolo Serrao“

Nomination for the Special Prize
"Ton & Erklärung"

The Alinea Quartet has been nominated for the
Music Prize of the German Industry
in the year 2021.

Fulda

Concert with José Azar (Piano)
 
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
 
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in A flat major, Op. 118
 
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

April 18

2023

Augsburg

Concert with José Azar (Piano)
 
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
 
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in A flat major, Op. 118
 
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
 
Herrenhaus Bannacker

Bannacker 2
86199 Augsburg

19:00

April 19

2023

Concert History

January 21, 2023

Glashütten

Concert with José Azar (Piano)
 

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in A flat major, Op. 118
 
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
 

Bürgerhaus Glashütten

January 7, 2023

Chateau Saint Loup, FR

Concert with José Azar (Piano)
 

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
 

December 10, 2022

Munich

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Johannes Brahms
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 51,1

Kunstforum Gilching

November 6, 2022

Bad Soden

17th Mendelssohn Music Days 2022

Chamber Concert with Lea Kohnen (Soprano)

String Quartet and Songs by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johannes Brahms

June 25, 2022

Munich

Concert with the Munich Classical Players

Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Christuskirche Poing, Munich

June 24, 2022

Augsburg

Concert with the Munich Classical Players

Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Augsburg, Herrenhaus Bannacker

May 7, 2022

Villefavard, France

Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in D minor, No. 15, KV 421

Johannes Brahms
String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op. 51

Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin

April 21, 2022

Venice, Italy

59th Venice Biennale
Gala of the Louis Vuitton Group

With pieces by Ravel, Mozart Mendelssohn, Borodin and Brahms

Palazzo Ca d’Oro, Venice

March 12, 2022 March 13, 2022

Stuttgart

String quartet concert with the

Sinfonic Orchestra Ostfildern

Spohr String Quartet Concert

Theater an der Halle, Nellingen and Festhalle Denkendorf

January 27, 2022

London, UK

Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in D minor, No. 15, KV 421

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major

St George’s German Lutheran Church, Whitechapel, London

January 26, 2022

Cambridge, UK

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor

Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi

Jeremy Thurlow
Understory

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major

Robinson College

January 25, 2022

London, UK

Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in D minor, No. 15, KV 421

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major

Christ Church, Knightsbridge, London

December 3, 2021

Paris, France

Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi

Goethe-Institut Paris

October 28, 2021

Lissabon, Portugal

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, Op. 35, 4th movement

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Muesum of Art, Architecture and Technology

September 1, 2021

Vibo Valentia, Italy

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, Op. 35

Palazzo Santa Chiara

August 31, 2021

Filadelfia, Italy

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, Op. 35, 1st movement

Award Winners' Concert of the XII. International Competition of Classical Music

Town Square, Filadelfia

August 28, 2021

Goslar

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Final Concert of a master class given by Prof Oliver Wille, Kuss Quartet

Kurhaus Hahnenklee

July 4, 2021

Fulda, Germany

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, Op. 35

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Liobakirche (St. Peter), Petersberg

June 5, 2021

Grassau am Chiemsee

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major, Op. 35, 1st movement

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet in Fis minor, No. 7, Op. 108

Final Concert of a master class given by the Goldmund Quartet

Wolfgang Sawallisch-Stiftung

October 11, 2020

Heidelberg

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Lecture Recital

St. Raphael, Heidelberg-Neuenheim

September 19, 2020

Munich

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Family Concert

September 15, 2020

Sierksdorf

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet in A minor, No. 2, Op. 13

Family Concert

December 15, 2019

Munich

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor "Rosamunde", D. 804, Op. 29

Institute for Musicology, LMU Munich

June 23, 2019

Munich

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor "Rosamunde", D. 804, Op. 29
Octett in F major, D. 803

Institute for Musicology, LMU Munich

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