Carnegie Hall

The Pavel Haas Quartet is revered around the globe for its richness of timbre, infectious passion, and intuitive rapport. Performing at the world’s most prestigious concert halls and the winner of five Gramophone Awards, the quartet is firmly established as one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles.

The Pavel Haas Quartet appears at major venues including Wigmore Hall in London, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Musikverein in Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Tonhalle Zürich, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Bozar Brussels, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, LG Arts Centre Seoul, and Carnegie Hall in New York. For its 20th anniversary in 2022, the quartet appeared on the cover of The Strad’s June issue and was the featured interview in BBC Music Magazine. In the latter magazine, the ensemble was included in the 10 greatest string quartet ensembles of all time and was described as “stylistically powerful and richly sonorous, [and] known for its passionate and fearless performances.”

In the 2024–2025 season, the Pavel Haas Quartet returns to Carnegie Hall for an all-Czech program in honor of the centennial of the Year of Czech Music, initiated in 1924 to honor the contributions of Czech composers. Other North American performances this season include Chamber Music Houston, Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, Calgary Pro Musica, Artis–Naples with pianist Milana Strezeva, San Francisco Performances, Chamber Music in Napa Valley, and Friends of Chamber Music in Vancouver. Internationally, the quartet returns to London’s Wigmore Hall and gives performances in the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Belgium.

Since 2022, the Pavel Haas Quartet has been artist in residence at the Dvořák Prague Festival, where it curates the chamber music concerts. The quartet has programmed the complete Dvořák string quartets and chamber music over three seasons.

The members of the Pavel Haas Quartet record exclusively for Supraphon. Their most recent recording, of the complete Dvořák piano trios with pianist Boris Giltburg joining violinist Veronika Jarůšková and cellist Peter Jarůšek, was released in 2023. In 2022, their recording of the Brahms string quintets and Piano Quintet with Mr. Giltburg and their former member, Pavel Nikl, was released to critical acclaim. Their 2019 recording of Shostakovich string quartets was named Recording of the Year by Classic Prague Awards and was named one of the 100 best records of the year by The Times. Further accolades include the Diapason d’Or de l’Année in 2010 for their recording of Prokofiev’s First and Second string quartets.

After winning the Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy in 2005, the Pavel Haas Quartet was named ECHO Rising Stars in 2007, participated in the 2007–2009 BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, and received the special ensemble scholarship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in 2010. The quartet is based in Prague and studied with Milan Škampa, the legendary violist of the Smetana Quartet. It takes its name from the Jewish Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was imprisoned at Theresienstadt in 1941 and tragically died at Auschwitz three years later. His legacy includes three wonderful string quartets.