Description:

Grad ?Quartet is a virtuoso ensemble from St. Petersburg, combining the best of the Petersburg?s academic traditions and bringing a spirit of experimentation and an inimitable sense of energy to its creative work. The breath-taking transformation of the ensemble?s different styles, musical directions and genres into playable music is astounding. The Quartet?s style is unique not only thanks to the unusual combination of Russian folk and classical instruments, which together create an inimitable musical texture, but also because of the fantastic energy of the musicians, who perform works solely in their own arrangements. In any works performed by Grad-Quartet, be they jazz improvisations, classical or folk music the musicians capture the musical essence of the work with an amazing precision. Expression and a breath-taking sense of measure, surprising musicality and ?drive?, unerring taste and a willingness to perform the most daring of musical experiments distinguish the Quartet?s performing style. Over the almost 5 years that they have been together, the ensemble has given over 450 concerts in Russia?s best concert venues and abroad, has been awarded various musical prizes, has won Russian and international competitions and has released 1 album.