KSQ

The Kaleidoscope String Quartet fearlessly and passionately explores the limits of strinq quartet music. The mainly classically trained members are similarly familiar with the musical languages of jazz, pop, rock and contemporary classical music, blending their own genre-bending sound. Composing and performing their own music, KSQ is seeking for interconnections between the styles.
Crunchy grooves, spherical and poetic sounds, folk-like melodies and crazy improvisations are combined together in an extremely varied and colorful way.
The quartet is regularly invited to renowned Festivals such as Murten Classics, Lucerne Festival Lounge, Cully Jazz, Langnau Jazznights, Jazzfestival Willisau and performs in famous jazz clubs such as Moods Jazzclub Zurich, Bejazz Bern, Volksbad Jena, Kulturcafe Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and many others.
KSQ performs all of their music by memory achieving a very close connection to the audience and allowing very spontaneous and lively interactions on stage.
Kaleidoscope String Quartet has won the 2012 ZKB Jazz Prize in Zurich which is the most prestigious jazz award in Switzerland. This confirms the fact that the quartet can compete with the foremost of the contemporary jazz music scene in a visionary and innovative way.

Press-quotes

«In the history of „ZKB-Jazzpreis“, there was never a winner playing with such a suppleness» (Tagesanzeiger Zurich)

«The quartet creates the most diverse moods ranging from spherically dreamy to experimentally wild but never forgets about the groove» (O.Maikopf, Jazzthing)

«Fulminantly alive music» (Jazzthing, Germany)

«This musical language checks out limits» (Jazzpodium, Germany)

«The music speaks on its own» (Concerto, Austria)

«The strings have succeded in combining influences of the classical quartet literature with jazzy grooves» (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich)

«The Kaleidoscope String Quartet has shown what inspirational music sounds like» (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)

KSQ’s tracks

• KSQ featuring Michael Zisman by KSQ