The ensemble’s name - New Russian Quartet reflects the musicians’ faith to the great Russian performing tradition and their desire to conquest the new peaks of chamber music performance as well as the modern approach to the repertory: apart from classical, romantic and 20th century masterpieces NRQ performs the today’s music including the jazz compositions.
Programs diversity is the important ingredient of the NRQ’s success: the audience had heard quartet performing not only the “academic” music, but also the poetry and even the rock music.
The broad repertory, great experience in matching with other musicians (from quintets to octet) and a lot of famous partners to play together resulted always warm reception from the audience opened for the NRQ the widest horizons of music making worldwide and made the ensemble the most demanded string quartet in Russia playing only in Moscow about 25 concerts annually.
Laureates of different international competitions Julia Igonina (violin), Elena Kharitonova (violin), Michail Rudoy (viola), Alexey Steblev (cello).