The Carmel Quartet, winners of the first prizes in chamber music and performance of an Israeli work in the prestigious 2004 Aviv competitions, was established in 1999. In 2001 the quartet won first prize in the "Prague-Vienna-Budapest" international competition in Austria. The quartet studied in Israel with Haim Taub and abroad with the members of the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne and with members of the Amadeus, Hagen, Bartok and Janacek Quartets. The quartet has participated in masterclasses with violinists Isaac Stern and Miriam Fried and with violist Rivka Golani. The Carmel Quartet studied with Avi Abramovich and is currently participating in the prestigious Pro-Quartet program in France, coached by Walter Levin of the LaSalle Quartet.

The members of the Carmel Quartet have won prizes in competitions and received scholarships from the America Israel Culture Foundation. They are all members of The Tel-Aviv Soloists with which they have performed on tour in Europe and the USA, in prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus. The quartet has performed with internationally renowned musicians such as violinists Gidon Kremer and Nikolai Znaider, violist Tabea Zimmerman, pianists Ian Fountain and Penina Salzman, guitarist Emanuele Segre and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi. ...

 

 

The Carmel Quartet are :

 

Rachel Ringelstein - Violin
Lia Raikhlin - Violin
Yoel Greenberg - Viola
Tami Waterman - Cello