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Music: German based Kuss Quartet to perform in Armenia for the first time

Panorama, Armenia
Oct 7 2019
19:12 07/10/2019 World

On October 9, German KUSS Quartet will perform an exclusive concert at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. As the press service at the festival reports, the concert will be held in the frames of the 20th edition of "Yerevan Perspectives" International Music Festival and will feature
Beethoven’s -String Quartet Op 59 “Serioso” F Minor, Johannes Brahms’s String Quartet Op 51 No 1. C Minor and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op 132 in A Minor.

The Berlin-based Kuss Quartet was founded by its violinists, Jana Kuss (first violin) and Oliver Wille in 1981, when they were only 14 years old. In 2002, the quartet acquired its superb violist William Coleman, who studied both in Salzburg with Thomas Riebl and Veronika Hagen at the New England Conservatory with Kim Kashkanian. Last but not least, the quartet was joined in 2008 by its exquisite cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan.

In early 2019, the Kuss Quartet was the first German string quartet to receive Stradivari’s legendary “Paganini Quartet” on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. The quartet played Beethoven’s complete string quartet cycle on these instruments in June 2019, by invitation of the Suntory Hall, Tokyo.

"Yerevan Perspectives" International Music Festival is an annual, year round festival which invites to Armenia top famous classical musicians, orchestras, ensembles and so on. The festival also organizes special projects by cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Armenia and with the other structures.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS