SIGNUM QUARTET

Florian Donderer
Annette Walther
Xandi van Dijk 
Thomas Schmitz 

Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:30 pm

Jane Hollock Brock Recital Hall
Samford University

800 Lakeshore Drive

Birmingham, Alabama

The Signum Quartet is characterized by the utmost intensity, the finest nuances, and relentless expressiveness, intimacy, and vitality. Their program is realized with uncompromising perfection and a natural ease of interpretation. As a guest ensemble at the Paris Philharmonie, London's Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and the BBC Proms, among others, the Signum Quartet regularly performs with partners such as Nils Mönkemeyer, Dominique Horwitz, Jörg Widmann, Daniel Ottensamer, Nicolas Altstaedt, and Elisabeth Leonskaja. The Signum Quartet made its Carnegie Hall in 2023. Its discography demonstrates its stylistic breadth: in addition to the greats of quartet literature, they have also recorded works by Wolfgang Rihm, Thomas Adès, Jörg Widmann, and Kevin Volans. Their recording of Erkki-Sven Tüür's String Quartet No. 2, "Lost Prayers," for ECM won the Classical Album of the Year award at the 2021 Estonian Music Awards.

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(from the artist's website)