The Wave Quartet

about

The impulse for the quartet’s establishment was a special wish by Bogdan Bácanu. Passionate about baroque music, he wanted to be able to perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s concerto for two harpsichords on the marimba and therefore founded the Wave Quartet together with three top-class colleagues: Emiko Uchiyama and Vladi Petrov, who, together as a duo, were prizewinners of several international competitions and Christoph Sietzen, prizewinner of the International ARD Competition and “rising star” of the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO). The ensemble was offcially born in 2008 at the Berlin Konzerthaus, where they performed Bach’s Concerto in C major, BWV 1061a, in an arrangement for four marimbas. It was a concert that thrilled both the press and public, not least because of the quartet’s respectful treatment of the original version but also for the historically informed manner that they approached Bach’s music. Since then, the repertoire of Bach and contemporary composers has been an important aspect of the quartet’s work, leading them to performances with, among others, the Mozarteum Orchestra in the Salzburg Festival Hall and the Romanian National Symphony Orchestra at the Athenaeum in Bucharest. Further concerts and master classes have taken the Wave Quartet to many countries throughout Europe and Asia, where the ensemble has been met with great enthusiasm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

Loco

Carmen

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Aurora Borealis

Senza Ripieno

Bach Concertos

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Marimba Concertos

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Lauda Concertata: Works by Séjourné & Ifukube

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Message in a Bottle (Arr. for 4 Marimbas)

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Carmen Suite: V. Habanera (Arr. for 4 Marimbas and Percussion by Rodion Shchedrin)

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巴赫协奏曲 - 木琴浪潮四重奏

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Loco: Works by J. Groban, A. Piazzolla, Reentko, C. Gardel and Rodrigo y Gabriela

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