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This German string quartet will perform at a Mumbai art gallery this weekend
Updated On: 08 January, 2023 09:33 AM IST | Mumbai | Nidhi Lodaya
A German strings quartet that collaborated with Anoushka Shankar and Zubin Mehta, is set to perform at Tao Art gallery
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Tilia Quartet, formed in 2005, is celebrating their orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin’s 450th birthday. Pic/Barbara Glücksmann
Named after the Berlin State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Tilia Quartet is a string quartet from Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra in Germany. Tilia is Latin for the linden tree. The quartet was formed by the then young musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra in 2005, and it currently comprises violinists Eva Römisch and Andreas Jentzsch, cellist Rebekka Markowski and Wolfgang Hinzpeter on the viola. “We have played many great classics as well as unknown works and premiered several works composed for us in over a 100 concerts,” says Hinzpeter, the founder. “We try to perform music by composers with a direct connection to our opera and its 450-year tradition.”
While their “home” the Berlin State Opera house was being renovated, the quartet played at art galleries, museums and even construction sites. This is their first time in India and so far they only have Mumbai on their agenda. As part of Mumbai gallery weekend, they are performing at the Tao Art Gallery, which is showing works by Rajesh Wankhade and Smita Kinkale. “Our concerts in galleries have always been inspiring: audiences and musicians become more intensely immersed in a space dominated by visual art, they become attuned to an art experience,” says Hinzpeter.
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