Aviv String Quartet Explained

The Aviv String Quartet is a musical quartet that was founded in Israel in 1997.^[1] Among the quartet's various awards are the DaimlerChrysler Grand Prize at the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and top prizes at the Bordeaux and Schubert Competitions.^[2] The Aviv Quartet has recorded 3 discs of Shostakovich on Dalia Classics and 2 Naxos discs of Hoffmeister and Schulhoff. It completed the Shostakovich cycle at the 2007 Verbier Festival, debuts at the Zurich Tonhalle and Brussels Palais des Beaux–Arts and returns visits to Wigmore Hall.^[3]

Members

Current members

• Violin I: Anna Göckel
• Violin II: Philippe Villafranca
• Viola: Noemie Bialobroda
• Cello: Daniel Mitnitsky

Former members

• Violin I: Sergey Ostrovsky (1997–2023)
• Violin II: Evgenia Epshtein (1997–2005)
• Viola: Timur Yakubov (2011–2015)
• Viola: Shuli Waterman (1997–2009)
• Viola: Nathan Braude (2009–2011)
• Cello: Iris Jortner (1997–2002)
• Cello: Rachel Mercer (2002–2010)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 21 September 2023 . Aviv Quartet appoints new first violinist . 2024-09-09 . The Strad . en.
2. Web site: Biography . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160119014435/http://avivquartet.com/index.php/en/biography . January 19, 2016 . Aviv String Quartet.
3. Web site: Aviv String Quartet . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20230929125657/http://avivquartet.com/index.php/fr/presse . September 29, 2023 . Presse.