The Animato Quartet won first prize of € 12.000 at the Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation competition, which was held on 22 January 2025 as part of the Heidelberg Spring String Quartet Festival.
A total of eight ensembles competed in front of an audience at the Heidelberg University of Education, selected from 27 applications.
The first prize, awarded to the Animato Quartet as an annual scholarship, is also linked to a performance engagement at the Heidelberg Spring Festival in 2026.
The release date of the new CD ‘Discovering Roslavets’ (I. Silver Night) by the Brackman Trio is February 7, 2025.
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In September the Brackman Trio is recording a new CD in Hilversum at the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep. News about this CD project will follow soon!
The Animato Quartet has been awarded the Kersjes Prize 2023.
Read also: NRC article
Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation: Podcast series De Instrumentenkamer with Tim Brackman about chamber music
The Animato Quartet wins the Audience Award in the final of the Dutch Classic Talent Award 2021/22. During the final, the quartet played a short version of ‘Expo 1889’, a program illustrated with works by Olivia Ettema.
Tim Brackman organized a benefit concert for Ukraine on March 12, 2022. With the great musicians Anna Fedorova, Borys Fedorov, Mikhail Zemtsov and Nicholas Schwartz.
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