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The Artemis Quartet, named after the Greek goddess of hunt and wilderness, is a German string quartet. The quartet was founded 1989 in Lübeck and is now Berlin-based.〔Tommasini A. "No Laws Broken, Artemis Quartet Goes on Tour." ''New York Times''. February 12, 2004 :E1- B9 〕 They are especially noted for their performances of the Beethoven string quartets.〔(Solare C. "At home with Beethoven." ''Stradivarius'' April 2010;121(1440):22-25. : Academic Search Premier. Accessed July 10, 2014. )〕 == History == The quartet's mentors have included Walter Levin, the Alban Berg Quartet, the Juilliard String Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet. The prize of the German Music Competition (1995) and first prize at the ARD Music Competition (1996) and the Premio Paolo Borciani (1997) paved the way to an international career. The recordings of the ensemble were awarded several important prizes, recently including the ECHO Klassik (ECHO Klassik) 2006 for their recording of the Beethoven Quartets Op. 95 and 59/1. The quartet was awarded the German Critics' Prize 2001, and the Würth Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Germany 2007. In 2015 the quartet was again awarded the ECHO Klassik in the category of chamber music recording of the year.〔(echoklassik.de - Preisträger 2015 ) retrieved 19 October 2015〕 The first members of the Artemis Quartet were professors of chamber music at the University of Arts, Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin). For personal and health reasons Wilken Ranck left the quartet in 1994 and Volker Jacobsen and Heime Müller left at the end of the 2006/07 season. Natalia Prishepenko resigned from the quartet after 18 years of membership of the ensemble in 2012. Newer members were Gregor Sigl (2nd violin), the violist Friedemann Weigle (until his death in July 2015) and the Latvian violinist Vineta Sareika (1st violin). The Artemis Quartet is an honorary member of the Association of the Beethoven House in Bonn (Vereins des Beethovenhauses Bonn). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artemis Quartet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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