![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An album with Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Gérard Pesson’s Nebenstück together with Reto Bieri, was released on ECM Records in 2019. Meta4 has also released two albums of Kaija Saariaho’s chamber music works (Ondine, 2013) and Sibelius’s String Quartet Voces Intimae on LP (Berliner Meister Schallplatten, 2013). 55 1–3 (2009), which was awarded with the esteemed Echo Klassik Award 2010, and Shostakovich’s String Quartets 3, 4 & 7 (2012), which received the Record of the Year 2012 award from the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and the Emma prize (the Finnish Grammy) for Classical Album of the Year, as well as Béla Bartók’s String Quartets 1 & 5. They have released three recordings on Hänssler Classic to date: Haydn’s String Quartets op. Meta4 studied at the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) under Hatto Beyerle and Johannes Meissl. Meta4 also served as artistic director of the Oulunsalo Music Festival between 20, and as quartet in residence at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival from 2008 to 2017. In 2013, the Fund of Jenny and Antti Wihuri awarded the quartet with a special prize in recognition of its work. They were selected as a BBC New Generation Artist for 2008‐2010 and took part in the 20th anniversary celebration concert at Wigmore Hall, collaborating for the first time with Khatia Bunitiashvili. Later that year the Finnish Minister of Culture awarded Meta4 with the annual Finland Prize in recognition of an international breakthrough. In 2007, the Quartet won the first prize in the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. In 2004, Meta4 won the first prize in the International Shostakovich Quartet Competition in Moscow, where they were also awarded a special prize for the best Shostakovich interpretation. In recent seasons, the quartet thrilled audience and critics alike with its performances in Kaija Saariaho’s chamber opera Only the Sound Remains at the Finnish National Opera, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real Madrid, and Lincoln Center in New York. The ensemble has been chosen as the principal guest conductor of the Jyväskylä Symphony Orchestra for two years from 2022 to 2024. Meta4 performs regularly in key music capitals and concert halls around the world including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place in London, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Cité de la Musique in Paris and Stockholms Konserthus, and has also toured Australia. ![]()
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