Petersen Quartet

The Petersen Quartet (Das Petersen-Quartett) is one of the most experienced and interesting chamber music organizations to emerge on the international music stage in the 1990s. The quartet began in 1979 when four string students at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule were formed into a string quartet for learning purposes, as well as for recreation. They were violinists Ulrike Petersen and Gernot Süssmuth, violist Friedemann Weigle, and cellist Hans-Jakob Eschenburg. They continued playing together and giving concerts, but this pursuit was subordinate to their main careers, as p...