Notos Quartett, Chamber Music at the Clark

All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person. 

Ticket prices: General $55; Senior (age 55+) $45; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable.

Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, February 24 at 12:00 noon.

Seating at the Clark Library is limited, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes.
Online: https://tinyurl.com/39hu3y3j
Telephone: (310) 825-2101
In person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level, across from Pauley Pavilion).

If any tickets for this concert remain unsold, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucla.edu, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478

Johannes Brahms (1833–97)
Piano Quartet in C Minor, op. 60

Sir William Walton (1902–83)
Piano Quartet in D Minor

Notos Quartett
Sindri Lederer, violin
Andrea Burger, viola
Benjamin Lai, cello
Antonia Köster, piano

The Notos Quartett is one of the most celebrated young chamber ensembles to emerge in recent years–praised for its virtuoso brilliance, passion, sensitivity, and mature interpretive powers.

Founded in 2007, the Berlin-based piano quartet first drew attention winning first prize in six major international competitions. Since then it has established itself worldwide, performing at renowned European concert halls, such as the Philharmonie Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Konzerthaus Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, BOZAR Brussels, Cirulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and the Teatro Fenice in Venice, as well as important festivals in Rheingau, Schwetzingen, Würzburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lockenhaus, Usedom, and Radio France in Montpellier, and traveling abroad for concerts in Australia, South Africa, Great Britain, Russia, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. They made their American debut in 2022 with three concerts for Chamber Music San Francisco and returned in 2025 and 2026 for performances in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Tulsa, Montgomery (AL), the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, BC.

Their repertoire spans from the great classical masterpieces to contemporary music. The Notos Quartett has a strong commitment to new music, as shown by numerous commissions and collaborations with such composers as Beat Furrer, Bryce Dessner, Garth Knox, and Bernhard Gander. They also search for important lost or forgotten works to bring to new audiences. Their 2017 debut CD, Hungarian Treasures (on Sony Classical/ RCA), includes an unknown piano quartet by Béla Bartók, recorded for the first time ever, and paired with music of Kodaly and Dohnanyi. Their second Sony CD, Brahms: The Schönberg Effect (2021), includes Brahms’s great Piano Quartet in G Minor, but also Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, arranged for the Quartett by Andreas N. Tarkmann. Their third CD, Paris Bar, (released by Sony in 2022 as a tribute to Paris), features music of Jean Français, the Polish/French composer Alexandre Tansman, and the Hungarian László Lajtha, who studied in Paris where he was highly regarded, but whose music was banned in Hungary. For its first recording, the Notos Quartett was recognized by ECHO Klassik 2017 as “Newcomer of the Year,” an award they returned in 2018, the first artists to ever do so, in response to the ECHO Pop Awards honoring an album with anti-Semitic content. The range of the Quartett’s programming has been documented by numerous concert recordings, interviews, and features on radio and television at home and abroad, including ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, BBC, France Musique, ORF, NHK Japan, and IPR USA. In 2022 they received the €25.000 Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany for their passionate and expressive interpretations.

An important aspect of the Notos Quartet’s work is its commitment to young musicians. In 2015 it founded the Notos Chamber Music Academy, which since 2019 is held each year in Weikersheim, in cooperation with the Jeunesses Musicales Germany. The Quartet has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and led the masterclass, Saigon Chamber Music, in Vietnam.

The Notos Quartett is grateful for the support of its mentors: notably Günter Pichler, leader of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet, with whom they studied at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, the Mandelring Quartet, Menahem Pressler, András Schiff, Clemens Hagen, and Uwe-Martin Haiberg. Through the support of the Merito String Instruments Trust, the Quartett performs on exceptional instruments by old Italian masters. They perform exclusively on strings made by Pirastro GmbH.

The Notos Quartett’s tour is supported by the Goethe-Institut.

Chamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation, under the auspices of Lee Walcott; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music; The Colburn Foundation; Ms. Brenda Anderson; Mrs. Martha R. Bardach; Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer; Dr. Rogers Brubaker; Dr. Johanna R. Drucker; Dr. Susan S. Harris and Mr. Mark J. Harris; Ms. Judy L. Hellinger; Dr. David E. Lopez; Drs. Martin and Susan Mach; Mr. Bernie and Ms. Elaine Mendes; Mrs. Janet K. Minami; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin; Dr. Theodore M. Porter; Dr. Jeanne Robson; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal; Ms. Carol E. Sandberg; Charles H. and Carol “Jackie” Schwartz; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund; Professor Bronwen Wilson; and Roberta and Robert Young.

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Photo credit: Courtesy of Notos Quartett