This is Kuss: An Animated Journey

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…

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Mantova

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…

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Out Now! All Beethoven Quartets Live from Suntory Hall

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…

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Concerts can­cel­led

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…

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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…

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“Beethoveniana” — Bruno Mantovani

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…

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Opus Klassik

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…

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Beethoven-Cycle in Hitzacker

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.…

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