Projects

Each year, the PQV invites avid amateur musicians to sign up for our chamber music course on the recently opened Musikinsel Rheinau. Already existent ensembles as well as individuals are welcome. During six days, chamber music lessons, performances in larger formations with the active support of the PQV as well as individual lessons are given. The week begins with a concert of the PQV.

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In our children’s concert series, we are dedicated to musical cultural exchange. For each program, we select a fairy tale from a different country. So far, these have included stories from Japan, Switzerland, Hungary, Taiwan, and Spain. Young composers from each country of origin set the fairy tales to music, resulting in exclusive musical works in which music and narration flow seamlessly together. We are delighted to welcome Fränzi Frick as our storyteller. A versatile violinist and educator, Fränzi’s artistic presence and joy of playing enrich the stage experience.

Our fairy tale concerts take place several times a year in concert halls, theaters, schools, and community centers. Our goal is to provide children with playful, imaginative, and emotional access to music, spark their curiosity, and bring them closer to a variety of sound worlds that inspire marvel and exploration.

Against the background of the five nationalities represented in the PQV, cross-cultural projects are particularly close to our hearts. In the field of contemporary music, we develop programmes that open up new perspectives through dialogue with other art forms – such as visual arts, literature and others. To date, we have collaborated with some of the most renowned museums in Europe, including the Essl Museum, the Leopold Museum, the Museum Rietberg, the Segantini Museum and the Kunsthaus Zug.

Upon invitation of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taipeh) we embarked on a discovery journey to the contemporary music of Europe and Taiwan. 18 young composers and 3 professors of Vienna and Taiwan wrote compositions for string quartet and the traditional Chinese instruments Pipa, Erhu and the Taiwanese bamboo flute.

Later, we developed an expanded project in which several leading composers from Asia, inspired by the drama „The Peony Pavilion“, composed new works for string quartet and pipa, which we premiered in Zurich and Taipeh.

Upon invitation of the association “Cultural Exchange Vienna – Shikoku, the PQV travels to Japan since 2010. In addition to public appearances in renowned concert halls, the PQV performs outreach concerts in schools, hospitals, special care homes etc.. Other projects connected with cultural exchange are public appearances in Nô-theatres or in temples with local musicians.
Simultaneously, the PQV explores Japanese culture, especially that of the Kagawa prefecture, thanks to the direct exchange with the local population. The impressions and experience gathered serve as inspiration for further projects.