The Schumann Quartet made its Toronto debut on this series is April, 2018 and we wanted to hear them again. The three brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann were joined in 2012 by violist Liisa Randalu. Study with the Alban Berg Quartet, a residency at the Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf, winning many awards, acclaimed CDs – it all adds up to an exciting young European quartet. The Schumanns won the NewcomerAward for 2016 of the BBC Music Magazine – and began…

The Pavel Haas Quartet was founded in 2002. Following their victory in the Prague Spring Festival Competition and Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia, Italy in 2005, they embarked on their international career. They now perform around the world, and have to date recorded six critically acclaimed CDs. Martinu: Quartet No. 4, H.312 Bartok: Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 - - - Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 and the "Grosse Fuge", Op. 133

Born in 1992, Benjamin first came to prominence as the outstanding winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at eleven; he was invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the Proms in 2011 at nineteen. Also in 2011 Benjamin signed to Decca Classics, and was the inaugural recipient of The Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize with the New York Philharmonic in 2016. No longer a prodigy, he…