How quickly the rise to world class can happen: The Leonkoro Quartet (Jonathan Schwarz, Amelie Wallner, violins; Mayu Konoe, viola; Lukas Schwarz, violoncello) was founded in Berlin in 2019 and has since been on the rise with a series of international competition victories shot up to the forefront of the string quartet world. Rightly so, because the spirit of immediate freshness and fearlessness prevails here, of eager attention to one another and joyful communication with one another, of joy in virtuoso success and of rousing curiosity about the music being played.
Grippingly fresh: Review of the Leonkoro Quartet’s concert – Munich
