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The Keller Quartet (HUNGARY) (András Keller - violin, János Pilz - violin, Zoltán Gál - viola, Judit Szabó - cello) was founded in 1987 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Three of the Conservatory’s most renowned professors can be regarded as their mentors to this very day: Sandór Devich, András Mihály and György Kurtág, who has composed for the Quartet. The Keller Quartet achieved its international breakthrough in 1990 by winning all prizes and special awards at both the Evian and Borciani Competitions. Throughout its history, the Quartet has exhibited extraordinary musical curiosity: curiosity about encounters with musicians and composers of all genres; curiosity about unknown works; and curiosity about new forms of programming, where unusual combinations develop their own dramatic tension. Examples include their famous Bach/Kurtág program, where selections from Bach’s Art of Fugue are intertwined with works of György Kurtág, and their performance of Zwiegespräch for string quartet and synthesizer by Kurtág father and son. The Süddeutsche Zeitung has written, "They have courage and they take their time for profound mourning. They never fall into an abyss of sentimentality." The Keller Quartet has recorded on the ECM, Erato, and Euro Arts labels. Their instruments were created by violin maker Peter Greiner in 2000.