The four musicians were brought together at a young age on the initiative of chamber music professor Hubert Buchberger – what began as an experiment at the Frankfurt University of Music soon turned out to be a stroke of good fortune. The succinct name was born spontaneously: “ARIS” are the four last letters of the four musicians’ first names.
After studying with Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet in Madrid, their international breakthrough came early on thanks to numerous first prizes at renowned competitions. The Aris Quartet attracted much attention after winning the highly endowed Chamber Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation in addition to five prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Having been named New Generation Artists by the BBC, ECHO Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organization, and winning the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, the Aris Quartet has also received some of the most prestigious international awards for young musicians.
They have released five highly acclaimed CD productions to date, the most recent in autumn 2020 in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk and BBC Radio 3 featuring works by Johannes Brahms.
The Aris Quartet is sponsored by the Anna Ruths Foundation, the Wilfried and Martha Ensinger Foundation, and the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation.