Biography

The Motus Quartet was founded in October 2022 and consists of Tim de Vries, Karla Križ, Erin Pitts and Domonkos Hartmann. They met during their studies in Vienna, where the quartet currently studies with Johannes Meissl at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). Further musical impulses have come from Hatto Beyerle, Eckart Runge, the Jerusalem Quartet, Peter Schuhmayer, the Danish String Quartet, Tim Frederiksen and Avedis Kouyoumdjian, among others.
The Motus Quartet regularly takes part in ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) and Musethica sessions all over Europe.
The ensemble was awarded two prizes at the 2023 International Summer Academy of the mdw (isa): the Artis Quartet Award and the Viennese Classicism Award.
In April 2023, the quartet made its Vienna Konzerthaus debut in the Schubert Hall and in March 2024, they made their debut at the Vienna Musikverein. Recent concert engagements brought the quartet to the United States, Tunesia, Taiwan, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland, followed by their Dutch debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam last October.

Tim de Vries performs on a violin made by Lorenzo Storioni (Cremona, 1793). Karla Križ plays on a composite Andrea