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About SQ

Highlights in the life of SQ

june 1985

the foundation of Stamic Quartet

16. 9. 1985

1st concert of Stamic Quartet in the Czech National Library "Clementinum" in Prague

17. 10. 1985 - 24. 11. 1985

1st tour of England and Ireland

september 1986

winners of quartet competition arranged by EBU in Salzburg, Austria

3. 11. 1986

a concert in Mozarteum in Salzburg - transmitted to member states of EBU, Canada and the U.S.A.

17. 6. 1987

the award of the year 1987 by the Czech Association for Chamber Music

1988

Grand Prix du Disque de l'Academie Charles Cros Paris for recording of string quartets of Antonín Dvořák (F Major, op. 96, G Major, op. 106)

1991

Grand Prix du Disque de l'Academie Charles Cros Paris for recording of the set of string quartets of Bohuslav Martinů

april 1993

the award of the magazine Diapasson, the "Golden Tuning-fork", for the recording of Dvořák's quintets (Jan Talich - viola, Jiří Hudec - contrabass)

Prague Spring 1997

complete performance of Alois Hába's string quartets

1998

award of Czech Musical Council for the performance of Hába's string quartets at the festival Prague spring

april 1998

1st position in comparative questionnaire of Janáček's string quartets in the British magazine Gramophone

2000

EuroArt Prague - festival "The Stamic Quartet and Guests"

2001 - 2002

EuroArt Prague - 2nd year of the festival "The Stamic Quartet and Guests"

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