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First of three releases on Spotify went online today. Today Alfred Schnittke's third string quartet has been added to the Spotify release radar.

Recently there was another great review about our album Outcast. This time on Musicweb International by Dominy Clements.  “This is a top notch release in every way."

On Sunday Matangi will be a guest in the Podium Witteman program (Dutch Television), where we will play a piece of the first string quartet by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov.

What else than a positive feedback could you expect from the online blog and forum 'Posi+ive Feedback', but to be compared with the benchmark recording of the Borodin Quartet is a different story.

Proud of this great review and the title Supersonic Pizzicato — on the eve of our CD presentation of Outcast!

In the last lockdown, we commissioned good friend and artist Gerard de Bruyne to make twelve drawings for a set of postcards. The result is 12 postcards in a beautifully designed folder. To send, give or treasure.

Benefit concert - In Ukrain an immense tragedy is unfolding before the eyes of the world. Together with Korzo, Matangi donates the entire ticket revenue of the presentation concert of the new album Outcast to Stichting Vluchteling.

March 9, 2022 we present Outcast to the world, with a public release concert in Korzo in The Hague, which will be broadcasted by Dutch Radio 4. We would like to invite everyone to attend this concert. Tickets are available via: korzo.nl. We are very proud of the result and we have already received the first favorable reviews.

The concert of February 20, which was unable to take place due to storm Eunice, has been moved to March 11. Same time, same place, same program.

Now that we are allowed again, four Dutch string quartets from the original festival line-up and the String Quartet Biennale are happy to open the doors to the public. The program includes a selection from the festival program and above all very beautiful string quartet music.

When is a piece of music finished? When the composer has drawn the double bar after the last note? Or can a piece also have an 'open ending'? In the UMF edition of 2021, the focus was not on a composer, but on the works that composers were unable or unwilling to finish; ‘(Un)finished’.

A piece of music that gives you goosebumps, that one painting that makes you stand still in a museum, a dance performance that moves you, that film that you can't let go of. Art can disrupt, challenge, move. But what makes art good, exceptional, special? When does it touches you?