Minguet String Quartet ntic and modern music, promoting the latter by premiering numerous twenty-first-century compositions. Meeting important composer of our time inspires new ideas for concert programmes. The first complete recording of the string quartets of Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka and Jörg Widmann are among their most important projects. The ensemble present its refined sound and allows listeners to rediscover the impressive music of the late Romantic era in their recent complete CD recording of the string quartets of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Josef Suk and Heinrich von Herzogenberg (on the cpo label). The four musicians were trained as soloists by celebrated teachers at international conservatoires and studied chamber music at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and the Cologne College of Music. They have been influ...
