Founded in Berlin in 2019, the Leonkoro Quartet has garnered a series of prestigious accolades, solidifying its place among the most celebrated ensembles of its generation. It was recently bestowed with the highly prestigious Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, a biennial award recognizing outstanding string quartets. Subsequently, the quartet triumphed at the International String Quartet Competition held at London’s Wigmore Hall, earning First Prize. It also won First Prize, Audience Prize, and Young Audience Prize at the Concours International de Quatuor à Bordeaux.

The concert program includes Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, Hindemith’s String Quartet no. 2 in F Minor, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.

“The Leonkoro Quartet…has an enormous stage presence, glows for the music, takes full risks and amazes with its empathy for the respective sound of the pieces” Allgemeine Zeitung