Out Now! All Beethoven Quartets Live from Suntory Hall

We are immense­ly hap­py to pre­sent you the result from many years of our quar­tet life. Finally, the CD box with 8 CDs have just been released at Rubicon Classics. Many thanks to our sound engi­neer Dirk Fischer, the Nippon Music Fondation for the loan of the...

Concerts cancelled

Dear fri­ends, dear fans, unfort­u­na­te­ly we have to let you know that our con­certs in Warstein, Paderborn, Kleve as well as Hameln and Amsterdam have been can­ce­led or post­po­ned. The coro­na­vi­rus pan­de­mic has rea­ched Germany as well. If you like,...

Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Piano Quintet with Olga Scheps

The new album with pia­nist Olga Scheps has just been released by Sony Classical. The first review at RBB Kultur is very posi­ti­ve and com­pa­res it to the recor­ding of the famous Borodin Quartet and Weinberg...

Highlights 2019/20

The Kuss Quartet con­ti­nues per­forming Beethovens String Quartet cycle in the upco­ming sea­son, which they will per­form in seve­ral con­certs in October & March in Hanover. Furthermore, the ensem­ble appears twice at Wigmore Hall London, at the Quartet...

“Beethoveniana” — Bruno Mantovani

“Beethoveniana”, the new com­mis­sio­ned work of Bruno Mantovani will be pre­mie­red in June 2019 at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Other pres­ti­gious com­mis­sio­ners, next to the quar­tet its­elf and the Suntory Hall are the Landesstifung Niedersachsen Musik21,...

“Ensemble in Residence” @JM International Chamber Music Campus

The Kuss Quartet is invi­ted as “Ensemble in Residence” to teach string quar­tets and other cham­ber music ensem­bles at the 64th Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus  from September 03–14 2019. Other pro­fes­sors are Heime Müller, who is...