Aviv String Quartet
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.[2] 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] The quartet is renowned for its nuanced interpretations.[4]
Brandon Garbot, from Portland, OR who studied in the Curtis Institute of Music together with Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt was recently appointed as second violinist.[5]
Members
[edit | edit source]Current members
[edit | edit source]- Violin I: Anna Göckel[1]
- Violin II: Brandon Garbot[6]
- Viola: Noémie Bialobroda
- Cello: Daniel Mitnitsky
Former members
[edit | edit source]- Violin I: Sergey Ostrovsky (1997–2023)
- Violin II: Evgenia Epshtein (1997–2015)
- Violin II: Philippe Villafranca (2015-2024)
- 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)
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