The world renowned Hagen Quartet performs the UK premiere of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas’ 6th String Quartet, commissioned by the International Mozarteum Stiftung, Salzburg, alongside works by Mozart and Shostakovich.

The Hagen Quartet, founded in 1981, is made up of three siblings, Lukas (violin), Veronika (viola) and Clemens Hagen (cello) and violinist Rainer Schmidt. The quartet studied in Salzburg and have since performed around the world establishing themselves as one of the foremost string quartets.

Georg Friedrich Haas is known and respected internationally as a highly sensitive and imaginative researcher into the inner world of sound. Most of his works (with the notable exception of his violin concerto) make use of microtonality although he is not happy to be pigeonholed as a ‘microtonal composer’: ‘I am a composer, free to use the means needed for my music’. A daringly innovative composer of rich imaginative power, a homo politicus aware of his responsibilities as a citizen, Georg Friedrich Haas is one of the leading composers in Europe today.