Discover with the Mozart Piano Quartet the magic of sounds and colors to be found in the romantic chamber music! Founded in 1997, the ensemble brings together international artists from Germany and Australia in a group that shows "with utter clarity the unanimity of their approach to music-making" Sydney Herald. "They made music with passion and fire, paired with technical brilliance," said the German press. The Quartet has been engaged by the Mahler and the Kurt Weill Festivals, the German Mozart and the Bach Festivals, by the Bauhaus Series, the Gewandhaus, the Melbourne and the International Barossa Music Festivals, the Sydney Opera House, among others.

The Mozart Piano Quartet had its first extensive North American tour in April 2002 and by now has appeared in New York (Frick Collection, Rockefeller U.), Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Jose, Montreal, and elsewhere. The group has recorded Brahms and Mozart for BMG-Arte Nova and Dvorák for MDG, with future recording projects of R. Strauss and Schumann. Of their Mozart recording, Strad Magazine said: "alert, sensitive and exhilarating accounts of Mozart's legacy in the genre. Verve, drive and imagination are evident in plenty." "A group to be watched!" The Advertiser

Mozart Piano Quartet - Members

Paul Rivinius, piano, a graduate of the Musikhochschule Muenchen, is a prize winner of several international competitions, among them the Munich ARD competition. As duo partner with his brother, the cellist Gustav Rivinius, he has appeared in television recordings and on tours through, e. g. Japan and North America. As a soloist, he has played under a number of well-known conductors, such as Claudio Abbado. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Clemente Trio with whom he won the chamber music competition of Caltanissetta and toured world-wide, so e.g. to Vietnam, Japan (Suntory Hall), Thailand, Australia and the USA. In January of 2004 he joined the Mozart Piano Quartet. Since 2002 Paul Rivinius has also been working as coach in the field of chamber music at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin.

Mark Gothoni, violin, studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, with Ana Chumachenko in Munich, Shmuel Ashkenasi in Chicago and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. He won several competitions (e.g. Brahms Violin Competition Hamburg) and has been appearing regularly with leading orchestras and conductors in his country and throughout Europe. Originally founder and primarius of the Gothoni Quartet, he is now primarius of the Orpheus Quartet and has been performing with the Mozart Piano Quarteton since the beginning of 2004. In addition, he has been concertmaster of the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss. Between 2002-2003 he served as guest professor for violin and chamber music at the McGill University in Montreal.

Hartmut Rohde, viola, has been the recipient of numerous prizes including first prize at the Deutsche Musikwettbewerb and the Viola and Contemporary Music prize at the Naumburg Competition, New York. He holds a professorial chair at the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin. He has recorded with EMI, Decca, BMG, MDG, and has appeared as soloist and as a member of chamber music ensembles in many of Europe's most important venues, in North America, Asia and Australia.

Peter Horr, violoncello, is professor of cello studies at the University for Music an Theatre in Leipzig and has been a successful prizewinner at competitions including the Cello Competition of Sheveningen. He has performed for most of the German radio stations, and as a soloist with orchestra and in chamber music settings on many of Europe's major festivals and venues, in the United States and Canada, in Australia and Asia. He has recorded with GMB, MDG and Naxos.