The Stenhammar Quartet
was founded in 1995. The members are Peter Olofsson and Per Öman, violins, Tony Bauer, viola and Mats Olofsson, cello.
Their warm and energetic musicianship together with striking technical refinement have given them a position as Sweden´s most interesting and respected quartet of today. Tours in Sweden and concerts around Scandinavia as well as regular guests in many chambermusic festivals. They are currently combining quartet and orchestral work and are members of SRSO and GSO where they all have leading positions.
The main emphasis of the repertoire is on Swedish music, but, needless to say, the international repertoire is of course also included.
New music has a special place for them and they have commissioned and premiered quartets by Mats Larsson-Gothe, Per Mĺrtensson, Mika Pelo, Viktoria Borisova-Ollas ao. Their release in 2008(Daphne records) with music by Lars-Erik Larsson including the first ever recording of “Late Autumn Leaves” received fantastic critics and was nominated for a Swedish Grammyaward. In 2009 they released their second cd with contemporary Swedish stringquartets (Phono Suecia). “Outstanding performance” was the comment of internationell magasine The Strad. During 2011 the quartet starts the recordings of W. Stenhammar’s complete quartets on BIS label.
Invitations to internationall festivals 2011 will include concerts in Poland, Denmark and England.