Pavel Haas Quartet

[1] Their first album with the second quartets of Haas and Janáček won the 2007 Gramophone Award for Chamber music.

Initially the group consisted of, besides Jarůšková, Kateřina Gemrotová (second violin), Pavel Nikl (violist), and Lukáš Polák (cellist).

Pavel Nikl played the viola until 2016, Radim Sedmidubský in 2016-2017, Jiří Kabát in 2018-2019, Luosha Fang in 2021-2022, Karel Untermüller in 2022, later Šimon Truszka.

[6] The quartet is named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899–1944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941, initially imprisoned at the work camp Terezin, and finally murdered at Auschwitz.

Although aware of the significance of the circumstances of Haas's final years, the group did not intend to make a statement about The Holocaust, but rather selected the name primarily because of his importance to Czech music and in particular because of his three string quartets, all of which they have now recorded.

The group got another early boost by winning First Place at the Premio Paolo Borciani competition in Italy in June 2005.

56, was also selected by Gramophone as an "Editor's Choice" and was described by the reviewer David Gutman as "pitch perfect".

[13] During 2006–2007 the group performed in France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain, including at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Philharmonie Essen [de].

Tour venues included the Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Cologne Philharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Stockholm Konserthuset, Birmingham Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York.

This program annually selects six to seven young artists and ensembles from around the world to make BBC recordings for broadcast and also sponsors a series of concerts in the United Kingdom.

[15] From Japan they continued on to Australia with concerts in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle, Melbourne, and Hobart which featured the world premiere performances of Australian composer Paul Stanhope's String Quartet No.

A concert in Bonn on 20 September included the Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op.

[22] The fall tour included performances of Beethoven's String Quartet in F major, Op.