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.

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
April 18
2023

Augsburg
19:00
April 19
2023
Concert History
January 21, 2023
Glashütten
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
January 7, 2023
Chateau Saint Loup, FR
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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