The "stylish, open-minded and adventurous" (The Guardian) DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAM continues our 61st season on Wednesday, February 3, 2027, at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus. Recipients of the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and winners of multiple international competitions, the Amsterdam-based quartet has performed at the Royal Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, and the BBC Proms, and is celebrated for their distinctive approach to both historical and contemporary repertoire.
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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has forged a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile quartets of its generation. With its ethos of ‘sharing the heart of music’, the quartet believes that chamber music is an act of friendship and play to be shared directly with audiences, and is committed to crafting unique and eclectic programmes that engage listeners in imaginative ways.
The players’ curiosity reaches to both the past and future: they perform music written pre-1900 with period-specific historic instrument set-ups, as well as playing and commissioning new music. This approach leads to a particularly wide range of core repertoire, from Gesualdo and Josquin to Brahms, Shostakovich and Messiaen. They often collaborate with composers such as Joey Roukens, Bushra El-Turk, Celia Swart, Peter Vigh and Theo Loevendie, and worked closely with Kaija Saariaho, including on the world premiere of her opera Only the Sound Remains, which premiered in 2016 at the Dutch National Opera and was recorded on DVD for Warner Classics.
Recent repertoire highlights include John Adams’ Absolute Jest with Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; and Steve Reich’s Different Trains, for which the players made their own new recording of the accompanying tape track. Their typical concert programmes range from Ligeti, Shostakovich and Weinberg to Mendelssohn, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, and they perform their own arrangements of pieces including Gesualdo, Josquin, Brahms and Shostakovich.
Committed to reaching new audiences, they often explore innovative musical formats. In 2024, they set up their own festival in the Netherlands town of Kampen, offering a wide range of music and events to around 3,000 locals and visitors – the third edition takes place in May 2026. For their Signature Sessions, they made string-quartet arrangements of well-known music, recording them for YouTube and sharing the scores online for free. They also work beyond the borders of music, for example in La Petite Poucette, a dance show based on the stories of Hans Christian Andersen and staged at Luxembourg Philharmonie in 2021.
The group has performed at many of Europe’s major venues and festivals, including Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Stockholm Concert Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Barcelona’s L’Auditori, De Doelen, Beethovenhaus Bonn, De Bijloke, BBC Proms, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Heidelberg String Quartet Festival and West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Further afield, in 2024 they made their Australian debut with performances at UKARIA and Canberra International Festival. In the 2025–26 season, they return to Concertgebouw for collaborative projects with pianist Hannes Minnaar and soprano Claire Booth, the latter as part of Gabriela Ortíz’s residency at the venue. They also tour the US, and perform concerts across the UK with Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey.
The Dudok Quartet’s eclectic recording catalogue showcases the ensemble’s courageous and inventive signature style, spanning repertoire from the Renaissance to 20th and 21st century classics including their own arrangements. Since 2021, they have recorded for Rubicon Classics and their recent releases have been celebrated by the press. The album ‘What Remains’, bringing together works by Joey Roukens, Steve Reich and Messiaen, was praised by The Guardian as ‘finely judged and excellently delivered’. The double album featuring Tchaikovsky’s String Quartets and Dudok’s arrangements of his piano cycle The Seasons, all performed on gut strings, was named Record of the Week on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review show and received outstanding 5-star reviews in BBC Music Magazine and The Strad. Future recording plans including works by Saariaho, Shostakovich, Haydn and Schubert.
Having first met as members of the Ricciotti Ensemble, a Dutch street symphony orchestra, the quartet takes its name from renowned Dutch architect Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974). A great lover of music, Dudok came from a musical family and composed in his spare time, saying, ‘I feel deeply the common core of music and architecture: after all, they both derive their value from the right proportions.’
The quartet performs on violins by Francesco Goffriller and Vincenzo Panormo, and viola by Jean Baptiste Lefèbvre, generously on loan from the Dutch Musical Instrument Foundation (NMF); and a cello by Hendrik Jacobs, made in 1700.
