Founded in 2024 at the Musik-Akademie Basel, the Wendel Quartet won a prize at the Orpheus Chamber Music Competition in the same year and was soon after invited to perform at some of the most important chamber music festivals in Switzerland, Italy, and Liechtenstein. In 2025, the ensemble appeared at festivals such as Musikdorf Ernen, the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden, Musica Insieme Bologna, and the Kloster Engelberg Concert Series.
Since 2024, the quartet has been working with internationally renowned teachers including Anton Kernjak, Silvia Simionescu, and Claudio Martínez Mehner. The Wendel Quartet is part of Le Dimore del Quartetto, an international network of ensembles of various formats that aims to support young and promising groups with a strong artistic vision through artistic residencies and public performances.
Committed to a curious and passionate approach to chamber music, the Wendel Quartet was born out of a shared musical intuition and a common enthusiasm for the piano quartet repertoire. Alongside the masterpieces written for this formation, the ensemble is particularly keen on programming contemporary works and compositions by lesser-known composers.
Key engagements in 2026 include concerts at the Davos Festival, Musikdorf Ernen, Klassik Podium Winterthur, and the Nexus Konzerte series.



ph. Benedek Horváth
