Kaunas String Quartet
The Kaunas String Quartet is a superb classical music ensemble in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city. The quartet was granted the status of municipal ensemble in 1988, and over 30 years it has demonstrated the high level of chamber music making in Lithuania, by giving more than 2,000 concerts in various venues, and at festivals at home and abroad.
The quartet has a repertoire of over 300 works, focusing on classical music, the 19th and 20th centuries, and works by living composers. The Kaunas String Quartet has played a large number of new works by Lithuanian composers, particularly from Kaunas, with whom it has collaborated over many years.