Malevich Ensemble
Biography Malevich Ensemble
The Malevich Ensemble
(formerly Malevich Piano Quartet, together with pianist Sofia Raychenko) was founded in 2015 in a chamber music class of Prof. Henk Guittart (Schoenberg String Quartet, artistic director of the Orlando Festival) at the Conservatorium Maastricht.
After only a few months of existence, the quartet was awarded a special prize and a concert tour in France at the Chamber Music Festival and Competition at the Conservatorium Maastricht in March 2016. In 2017, the ensemble became a laureate of the Storioni Festivaland Competition and recorded the Piano Quartet (1938) by Oscar van Hemel (1892-1981) for the first time at the Orlando Chamber Music Festival in Kerkrade (Netherlands) (Etcetera Records label).In November 2017, the Malevich Piano Quartet won the 1st prize and the Gnessin Art Prize at the Taneyev Chamber Music Competition (Moscow-Kaluga, Russia).
In the early years, Malevich Piano Quartet was a participant of many prestigious festivals such as "Pianoscope", "Clef de la Cite", "Piano Prestige" and others. In 2019, the Malevich Piano Quartet became a member of the chamber music class of Prof. A. Spiri and Prof. H. Schoneweg at theHochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. This year, the quartet was a prizewinner at the 7th Chamber Music Competition in Cologne. In August 2019, aLive premiere of the 2 Piano Quartets (1959; 1968) by Hans Kox (1930-2019) was recorded as part of the Orlando Festival concerts(Orlando CD production, Etcetera Records), and the ensemble was selected to represent the OrlandoFestival as part of a Dutch concert tour in 2020-2021,with concerts at venues such as Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Theater Heerlen, MuziekHavenZaandam and De Nieuwe Kerk Den Haag.
In June 2021, the Malevich Piano Quartet changed its ideology and name to become a more flexible group.
Pianist Georgy Voylochnikov joined a new formation of the Malevich Ensemble that year.
The ensemble took part in master classes with such renowned musicians as Jean-Bernard Pommier,Storioni Trio, Sam Haywood, RusQuartet, Osiris Trio, Sigiswald Kuijken, Shunske Sato and Alexander Zemtsov.
