About us

In typography, the “Alinea” symbol ¶ marks a line break, the beginning of a new thought. The Alinea Quartett, based in Munich and founded in 2021, has set out to rethink the meaning and relevance of chamber music for our time.

On this search, they are looking to establish a dialogue with their audiences in conversational recitals, constantly striving to engage with different art forms and experimenting with innovative concert formats. This approach led to performances in places as diverse as the Prinzregententheater Munich, Musikverein Graz, MAAT Museum Lisbon, Cambridge University and the Venice Biennale – but they also bring their music to elementary schools, retirement homes and children’s clinics.

By combining their instrumental skills with their individual backgrounds in fields such as musicology, literature and philosophy, they seek to open new perspectives for musical interpretation. In addition to the traditional quartet repertoire, this includes creating their own arrangements of music of different genres. In the upcoming season the will present their own complete arrangement of Schubert’s „Winterreise“ for voice and string quartet.

Highlights of their season of 2025/26 included performances alongside Vivi Vassileva and Noa Wilschut at SOLsberg Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and presenting „gardensongs“ by American composer Paul Novak at its European premiere as well as the rediscovered string quartet in G Major by Hugo Staehle (1826-1848) at its world premiere in Fulda. In the same season, the quartet was selected as one of 10 quartets to compete in the 2nd Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition and was selected to join the MERITA platform within the MERITAcubed project.

The ensemble is studying with Prof. Alexander Pavlovsky (Jerusalem Quartet) at Kunstuniversität Graz. They also received valuable impulses from renowned musicians such as Jörg Widmann, Eberhard Feltz, Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartett), Heime Müller (Artemis Quartet), Gregor Sigl (Artemis Quartet), Ida Bieler (Melos Quartet), Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet), the Jerusalem Quartet, the Cuarteto Casals, the Schumann Quartett and the Goldmund Quartet.

At the XI. International Competition “Annarosa Taddei” 2023, the Alinea Quartett won the First Prize. At the XII. Concorso Internazionale Musica Classica in Filadelfia, Italy the Alinea Quartett won the first prize as well as the special prize “Paolo Serrao”. In 2024, they won the Second Prize in the “Da Vinci Young Sounds” Competition.

They received scholarships from the Brahmsgesellschaft Baden-Baden, Jeunesses Musicales, YEHUDI MENUHIN Live Music Now and were selected for the MERITA project.

The Alinea Quartett has performed as part of prestigious festivals such as SOLsberg Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Zeister Muziekdagen. They performed in numerous countries around Europe including Germany, Italy, Austria, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Great Britain and the Netherlands.

Their debut album “Le temps perdu” with music by Maurice Ravel will be published by DaVinci Classics in 2027.

  • “Besides their outstanding technical abilities, the four musicians are characterized by a great passion, freshness and straightforward will, paired with thorough knowledge of the pieces they play.” Taunus Nachrichten

  • “Extraordinarily beautiful, refined, expressive and completely technically assured (…) this was musicianship of a very high order, and it was a thrill to be there to hear it (….). They reward the audience with a treat of the rarest music-making.” Jeremy Thurlow, Komponist

  • “an intricate performance (…) a magical night of music making.” The Cambridge Critique

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