Quatuor Agate

Founded in 2016, the Quatuor Agate is named after one of the most beautiful works of chamber music, Brahms’s Second String Sextet, dedicated to his second love, Agathe von Siebold. The quartet studied with Eberhard Feltz at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, with Mathieu Herzog in Paris and with the Quatuor Ebène at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.

In 2021 the quartet won the Young Classical Artists Trust auditions in London, and in 2022 the quartet received the prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary work at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet was also distinguished at the Verbier Festival in 2019 and won the Audience Prize at the Steels-Wilsing Competition in 2020. The quartet was selected as an ECHO Rising Stars ensemble for the 2024/25 season, and Bachtrack named the quartet among its ten artists to watch in 2024/25.

The quartet has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Barbican, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Brucknerhaus Linz, and at festivals including the Verbier Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Festival de Radio France, Britten-Pears Arts in Aldeburgh, the Lammermuir Festival and Leif Ove Andsnes’s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival. The quartet made a debut tour of Colombia in 2024 and has toured the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The quartet’s debut album, Brahms: The String Quartets, was released by Appassionato in 2024. The quartet has also recorded Chausson’s Concert with Frank Braley and Gabriel Le Magadure for Appassionato, and an album with tenor Eric Ferring for Delos.

The quartet is resident at the Conservatoire Rachmaninoff in Paris and associate artist of the Festival La Brèche. Shortly after forming, the quartet founded the CorsiClassic festival in Ajaccio, Corsica. The quartet is supported by ProQuartet, the Günther Caspar Foundation, the Fondation Singer-Polignac and the Fondation Banque Populaire.