Competition success for HfMT alumna

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Eszter Kruchió, 2016 Bachelor graduate of the HfMT Hamburg in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, won 2nd prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work "Terra memoria" by Kaija Saariaho at the "Concours International de Quatuor à Cordes de Bordeaux" in France, one of the most important quartet competitions worldwide, on May 14, 2022 with her string quartet, the Chaos String Quartet.

Born in Budapest in 1993, Eszter Kruchió studied Eszter Kruchió with Ernst Kovacic in Vienna, Tanja Becker-Bender in Hamburg and Ulf Schneider in Hanover, currently studying for her concert exam. She received formative musical impulses from Eberhard Feltz, Oliver Wille, Péter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann. She was recently awarded a scholarship from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for her active involvement with contemporary music. She is currently a finalist for the Berlin Prize For Young Artist with a solo program, selected from over 230 international applicants. As a passionate chamber musician, she has played alongside artists such as Thomas Riebl, Péter Nagy and Claudio Martínez-Mehner. She holds a scholarship from the Bischöfliche Studienförderung Cusanuswerk and is a member of the Chaos String Quartet.

Chaos String Quartet - Susanne Schäffer, Eszter Kruchió, Sara Marzadori, Bas Jongen:
The Chaos String Quartet's motto is to follow an original and fundamentally sincere path, a path that aims to overcome supposed boundaries. Winner of 2nd prize and 3 special prizes at the Bartók World Competition 2021, the young ensemble has performed at the Davos Festival, Ravenna Festival, Ghent Festival van Vlaanderen, Festival del Quartetto Firenze and Wien Modern, among others. At the 65th Chamber Music Campus of Jeunesses Musicales International, the four musicians were awarded the prize for the most promising newcomer ensemble 2020, along with an invitation to the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival 2023. In the same year, they won the XI Premio Rimbotti in Italy. The quartet has worked with artists such as Alexander Ullman, Giampaolo Bandini, Avri Levitan, Hyung-ki Joo and Christoph Zimper. The ensemble also had the opportunity to work with the composer Helmut Lachenmann on his 2nd string quartet "Reigen seliger Geister". In addition to working with their mentor Prof. Johannes Meissl in Vienna (European Chamber Music Master), the musicians received further important artistic inspiration from Eberhard Feltz, Patrick Jüdt, András Keller, Clive Brown, Hatto Beyerle, Hariolf Schlichtig, Rainer Schmidt and Oliver Wille. In the 2021/22 season, the four young musicians will perform in England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Netherlands.

www.chaosstringquartet.com