Jerusalem Quartet

Aware, sophisticated, the Jerusalem Quartet are known for warm, full-bodied, radiant sound, combined with an intelligence that looks beyond the notes for meaning and confirms their status at the very top of the international chamber music league. In other words, they come with class. Established in 1996, the quartet plays a repertoire covering the core quartet spectrum from Haydn and Mozart to Bartók and Shostakovich. For larger-scale works, they collaborate with star soloists like violinist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Gary Hoffman. As cultural ambassadors for their homeland, they also emphasise the music of Jewish interwar composers like Korngold and Erwin Schulhoff, whose chamber works appear on the quartet's Yiddish Cabaret (2019), with soprano Hila Baggio. The Jerusalem Quartet take this often-marginalised music around the world, and with a pioneering zeal that gives them edge.