
This is Kuss: An Animated Journey
We proudly present our new music video: A collage of excerpts from works that have been our companions over the last 20 years; works that we love and admire, some of which we premiered; music we…

Music on the island — Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
We are delighted to be invited by the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, to their Inselmusik, which is a String Quartet Festival at the beginning of September! We were involved in the program…

Mantova
We are delighted to be taking part in the fantastic “Trame Sonore” festival in Mantova this year, where we will be playing with Alexander Lonquich, among others. This should be the start of further…

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 Stradivari…

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, you can purchase our new…

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 himself.
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 Biennale in…

“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, Concertgebouw…
“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 also Artistic…
“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…

Opus Klassik
The Kuss Quartet has just been awarded with the Opus Klassik (successor to the Echo Klassik Prize) together with Hinrich Alpers, Hanno Müller-Brachmann and several other colleagues for the album…

Beethoven-Cycle in Hitzacker
At the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the Kuss Quartet completed its first Beethoven cycle — various media such as the WELT, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Kieler Nachrichten reported about this.…