“A highly individual musicality that speaks to the audience.”

Counted amongst the most exciting young string quartets, the Goldmund Quartet, consisting of Florian Schötz, Pinchas Adt, Christoph Vandory and Raphael Paratore, has with its exquisite playing and multi-faceted homogeneity given convincing interpretations of the great classical and modern works of the string quartet literature for more than a decade now. Their inwardness, unbelievably fine intonation, and phrasing worked out to the smallest detail inspire audiences worldwide.

The past season was marked by international travel - in keeping with the theme of their current CD "Travel Diaries". The quartet travelled to Colombia for the Cartagena Music Festival and to the USA the following month with concerts in New York, Boston, Kansas, Tucson, Salt Lake City and Montreal. Back in Europe, their calendar took them to Italy, France, Sweden, the Netherlands or Denmark.

The 2022/23 season again presents a fireworks display of musical highlights. A tour of Japan at the invitation of the Nippon Foundation will be followed by the quartet's debut at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Performances in Padua and the Teatro Reggio Emilia lead to Italy, and performances of Chausson's Sextet together with violinist Noa Wildschut and pianist Elisabeth Brauss are scheduled in Holland and Belgium. In the second half of the season, the quartet will accept invitations from the Sociadad Filarmonica in Bilbao and again from the Hemsing Festival in Norway, before concluding the season with concerts at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Musikverein in Graz, the Mercatorhalle in Duisburg, Mönchengladbach, Bensheim and the Marvão Festival in Portugal.

Awarded at the prestigious 2018 International Wigmore Hall String Competition and winners of the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 2018, the Goldmund Quartet has been named Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season by the European Concert Hall Organisation as well as laureates of the Jürgen Ponto-Foundation. The Nippon Music Foundation has awarded the Quartet with a full set of Stradivari instruments. The Quartet also received the Bavarian Young Artist Award and the Karl-Klinger-Prize during the 2016 ARD International Music Competition Munich.

In 2020, Berlin Classics released "Travel Diaries", the Goldmund Quartet's third album with works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ana Sokolovic, Fazil Say and Dobrinka Tabakova, which Harald Eggebrecht described as "one of the liveliest and most stimulating string quartet CDs of recent times". (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Their Travel Diaries are the musical diary from their last decade together and a sound document that is both reflective and forward-looking.

Chamber music partners include artists such as Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Krichel, Alexey Stadler and Wies de Boevé, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Elisabeth Brauss, Maximilian Hornung, Frank Dupree, Simon Höfele.

Educated at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater as well as by Günther Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, the Quartet has received important artistic impulses in master classes with the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaÿe and Cherubini quartets, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz and Alfred Brendel.