Dominant Quartet

The Quartet's first recital at the Wigmore Hall in October 2006
“The class of the Dominant Quartet from Moscow was evident at the Wigmore Hall on 22 October from opening bars of Prokofiev’s Second Quartet. Their ensemble playing was razor-sharp, their intonation completely secure, their virtuosity up to the most searching demands of two strongly contrasted works.”

January – February 2007, MUSICAL OPINION, England

About the perfomance at the West Cork Chamber music festival, Ireland
“The art of Russian interpretation was presented by the brilliant Dominant Quartet, which performance turned out to be a real discovery of the festival. The four young ladies do possess maturity and masterfulness of big-name artists. The grandeur of the Quartet's colourful tone imaging, their obvious dynamic development and clear sound of the perfect ensemble merely enchanted as their audience as their critics and colleagues.”

Olga Frederiksen, HUDOBNÝ ŹIVOT, Bratislava

From the review of Dominqnt Quartet CD with Vainberg String quartets Nos 7, 8, 9
“What wonderful playing the members of the Dominant Quartet bring to this recording. It’s strong, intense, mutually empathetic, full-bodied, insistent, gritty and their tone colours are as varied as the endlessly shifting moods of these powerful, deeply reflective work by one of Russia’s greatest composers… I doubt if a finer string group has emerged from Russia in the past five years.”

Roderio Dunnett , THE STRAD

About the performance at the “Mlada Praga” music festival
“As if of pleasing surprise was the performance of the Dominant Quartet from Moscow. It was there, in dramatically effective, organic and dynamically rich and vivid performance of Schubert’s Quartet-satz C-moll, and in brilliant interpretation of Quartet No. 3 by Shostakovich, where the unexpected maturity of the ensemble was exposed by itself.”

MUSICAL REVIEW, Prague

About the performance at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival
“This work is done perfectly (i.e. Schubert Five Minuets and Five German Dances), especially the rhythm synchronization amazes us.”

KARJALAINEN, Kuhmo

About Dominant Quartet first appearance at the Taunton Music Festival
”We have just enjoyed the outstanding debut concert in this country of such a vibrant young quartet.”

Peter Brookes, THE TIMES