Aviv String Quartet

The Aviv String Quartet is a musical quartet that was founded in Israel in 1997.^[1] Among the quartet's various awards are the DaimlerChrysler Grand Prize at the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and top prizes at the Bordeaux and Schubert Competitions.^[2] The Aviv Quartet has recorded 3 discs of Shostakovich on Dalia Classics and 2 Naxos discs of Hoffmeister and Schulhoff.^[2] It completed the Shostakovich cycle at the 2007 Verbier Festival, debuts at the Zurich Tonhalle and Brussels Palais des Beaux–Arts and returns visits to Wigmore Hall.^[3]

Members

Current members

• Violin I: Anna Göckel^[1]
• Violin II: Brandon Garbot^[4]
• Viola: Noémie Bialobroda
• Cello: Daniel Mitnitsky

Former members

• Violin I: Sergey Ostrovsky (1997–2023)
• Violin II: Evgenia Epshtein (1997–2015)
• Violin II: Philippe Villafranca (2015-2024)
• Viola: Timur Yakubov (2011–2015)
• Viola: Shuli Waterman (1997–2009)
• Viola: Nathan Braude (2009–2011)
• Cello: Iris Jortner (1997–2002)
• Cello: Rachel Mercer (2002–2010)