Artemis Quartet

The Artemis Quartett was founded by four students at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck in 1989; they are first violinist Natalia Prischepenko, second violinist Heime Müller, violist Volker Jacobsen, and cellist Eckart Runge. In Lübeck they studied with LaSalle Quartet alumnus Walter Levin and took master classes with the Alban Berg Quartet, an apprenticeship that began in 1994 and went on for some time. By the time of its seventh season, the Artemis Quartett had already played most of the major European capitals and had conducted its first tour of the United States, and in 1997 it...