Neskowin welcomes chamber quartet

Germany’s Mandelring Quartet will present the next concert in the Neskowin Chamber Music series this Sunday, Nov. 5, at Camp Winema.

Siblings Nanette (violin), Sebastian (violin) and Bernhard Schmidt (cello) will be joined by violist Andreas Willwohl.

In its more than 40 years as a musical ensemble, Mandelring has appeared in concert venues all over Europe and the United States, from Vienna, London and Madrid to New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver. 

Its members have won numerous competitions, starting with one in Munich that launched their careers. They give an annual festival in their hometown of Neustadt-on-the Weinstrasse.  Since 2010, the quartet has presented a regular concert series in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic.

“Wherever these four musicians appear, they leave behind lasting musical impressions,” wrote the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper about one of their concerts, calling it “a memorable festival experience not likely to be equaled in the near future.” The Spanish magazine Scherzo called their performances “poetry in sound.”

The Mandelring has performed cycles of the complete chamber music for strings of Mendelssohn and Brahms. It has played all fifteen Shostakovich string quartets at the Salzburg Festival and in Berlin. In 2020-2021, it performed in the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and a number of times at the Royal Palace in Madrid.

Sunday’s concert begins at 3 pm at Camp Winema, located three miles north of Neskowin, just off Highway 101. Season tickets are $130 and individual tickets are $30. For more information, go to neskowinchambermusic.org or call 503-965-6499.