Aviv String Quartet
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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]
