violet quartet

Bettina Hagemann, Sabine Rau, Stefan Emde, Andreas Heuser - electric violins and electronics.

Violet Quartet extends the musical range of traditional string ensembles.

With electric violins, electronics and playful imagination the players go on musical trips to all continents and into outer space.

Using various playing techniques and electronics they change their violins into percussion-set, synthesizer or electric bass.

Violet quartet`s members had studied classical music, jazz, improvisation, klezmer and different kinds of ethnic music. They mix it all together creating their individual style.

Rumanian doinas, Caribbean impressions and jazz do coexist with string ballads, minimal music and sound collages.