The Goldmund Quartet with Florian Schötz (violin), Pinchas Adt (violin), Christoph Vandory (viola), and Raphael Paratore (cello), performs on the world’s most prestigious concert stages.
Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for their “exquisite playing” and their “multifaceted homogeneity,” the Goldmund Quartet captivates audiences worldwide with its depth of feeling, precise intonation, and phrasing refined down to the smallest detail. These qualities are evident in their nuanced interpretations of both classical and contemporary chamber music works.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include an extensive U.S. tour with concerts in Boston, Houston, and Miami, as well as masterclasses in collaboration with the Tokyo University of the Arts. In addition, the quartet returns to renowned festivals, including the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Rheingau Music Festival, where it will perform alongside Martynas Levickis. Further engagements include performances at the Alte Oper Frankfurt with Raphaela Gromes, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, and concerts in Leiden and Warsaw. The quartet will also collaborate with Sabine Meyer for concerts in Grünwald and Bamberg and perform with Fazil Say at the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. In June 2026, the quartet will curate the second edition of its own chamber music festival at Irsee Abbey, continuing its commitment to artistic collaboration and musical discovery.
Collaborations with composers such as Kaan Bulak, Jörg Widmann, and others demonstrate their commitment to the composition and performance of contemporary music. These efforts, as well as educational projects, are supported by the Förderverein Goldmund Quartett e.V.
The Goldmund Quartet has performed with artists such as Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Sabine Meyer, Pablo Ferrández, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Martynas Levickis, Maximilian Hornung, Elisbeth Brauß, Christian Gerhaher, and Fazil Say.
Their most recent album, Dahoam, is a musical exploration of their Bavarian roots, realized through an innovative blend of folk and classical music. Known for their immense musical versatility, the quartet’s albums feature both traditional classical and contemporary works—from Schubert and Mendelssohn to Wolfgang Rihm and Dobrinka Tabakova. The album Prisma, released in 2023, brings together contemporary works by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Uno Helmersson, as well as two newly commissioned pieces by Pascal Schumacher and Sophia Jani.
In 2016, the Goldmund Quartet was awarded the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize as well as the Karl Klinger Prize at the ARD Music Competition. As winners of the International Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2018, the ensemble was nominated as “Rising Stars” for the 2019/20 season by the European Concert Hall Organisation.
Since 2019, the quartet has been playing on the legendary “Paganini Quartet” by Antonio Stradivari, provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. In March 2020, the ensemble was also awarded the Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation.
In addition to studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich and with members of the Alban Berg Quartet—including Günter Pichler at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin—masterclasses and studies with members of the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaye, and Cherubini Quartets, as well as Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz, and Alfred Brendel, provided the quartet with important musical inspiration.
