The Arditti Quartet is the only ensemble ever to receive the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, awarded to them in 1999 for lifetime achievement in music.
Performer Biography
The Arditti Quartet, founded in 1974 by first violinist Irvine Arditti, has a global reputation for interpreting contemporary and earlier 20th-century music.
Composer Biography
In 2013, Eunho Chang's piece Fantasia Luminosité for solo violin and orchestra was awarded the 30th Queen Sofia Prize in Spain.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Eunho Chang's passion is to express spontaneous timbres, patterns, and gestures from traditional Korean music using contemporary techniques.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Emulating the aesthetic lines of oriental painting, Eunho Chang tries to express musically the freedom and autonomy of each painted brush stroke.
Composer Biography
Eunho Chang, born in 1983 in Daegu, Republic of Korea, began his musical studies with piano lessons at the age of seven.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Eunho Chang's music is a record of his life, a musical diary, and he aims to express the sound of nature through a combination of various tones.
