Chaos String Quartet
Recently selected as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2023-2025, the Chaos String Quartet is rapidly establishing itself on the international music scene. The Quartet has been awarded at the most prestigious international competitions such as Bad Tölz (2023), ARD (2022), Bordeaux (2022), and Haydn (2023). Additional successes include winning the 2nd Prize at the 2023 Heidelberg competition, the 2nd Prize and numerous Special Prizes at the 2021 Bartók World Competition, and the International Premio V. E. Rimbotti in Italy in 2020.
The Chaos String Quartet was invited to music festivals such as the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the Schwarzwald Musikfestival, the Mozartfest Würzburg, the Davos Festival, the Ravenna Festival, Lockenhaus, the Gent Festival van Vlaanderen, the Festival Academy Budapest, and the Heidelberger Streichquartettfest, among others. In the season 2023/24, the ensemble made its debut in the Musikverein Wien, Wigmore Hall London and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Mentored by Prof. Johannes Meissl in Vienna through the ECMAster program, the Quartet additionally completed a postgraduate course at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with the Cuarteto Casals. The ensemble received further musical impulses from artists such as Eberhard Feltz, András Keller and Oliver Wille.
The Quartet is a member of the Merita Project and has been selected for the promotional program “New Austrian Sound of Music”.
Bas Jongen plays a cello by Hendrick Jacobs (Amsterdam, 1696), kindly loaned to him by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation (NMF).