Hagen quartet biography channel

Lukas Hagen - violin
Rainer Schmidt - violin
Veronika Hagen - viola
Clemens Hagen - violoncello

Regarded internationally as one of the foremost string quartets of the day, the Hagen Quartet consists of the two brothers Lukas and Clemens and their sister Veronika Hagen and, since autumn 1987, Rainer Schmidt.

The Quartet studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum (where they have themselves taught since 1988) and in Basel, Hannover and Cincinnati, where they were taught by such distinguished musicians as Hatto Beyerle, Heinrich Schiff, Walter Levin and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

They won the Audience Prize and the Jury Prize at the Lockenhaus Festival in 1981, where they have since returned regularly, and went on to win first prize at the Evian Competition in 1983 and the Portsmouth Competition in 1982, which led to their Wigmore Hall debut.

Since then they have become frequent guests of major concert promoters across the globe, touring extens