Quatuor Hermès

The flourishing career of the Quatuor Hermès takes its members on tours worldwide. The quartet is a regular guest in the United States, where it performs at prestigious halls including the Kennedy Center in Washington and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Its trajectory has been punctuated by a number of decisive encounters, notably with the Ravel, Ysaÿe and Artemis quartets, with whom the four musicians trained and developed a shared musical philosophy, and with such outstanding personalities as Eberhard Feltz in Berlin, and later Alfred Brendel.

The Quatuor Hermès has received numerous prestigious awards, among them ‘Révélation Musicale de l‘Année’ at the Prix de la Critique 2014-15 and the Nordmetall Ensemble Preis 2013 at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. It also won the First Prizes of the Geneva International Competition 2011, the FNAPEC Competition 2010, the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition 2009, and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York.

The four musicians were Artists in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel from 2012 to 2016. Since 2015 they have received support from the Fondation d’Entreprise Banque Populaire and are Associated Artists of the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris since 2019.

Their of Schubert two major works was acclaimed by international critics, and has been awarded CHOC of the French magazine Classica, as well as CD of the week of the Bavarian Radio BR-Klassik. They also received similar accolades for their previous recordings of Debussy, Ravel, and Dutilleux quartets, as well as the complete Schumann string quartets. Their last recording, Echoes of Vienna, dedicated to works by Mozart and Korngold, was released in 2026.

Yan Levionnois plays on a cello made by David Tecchler in 1703, generously loaned by private benefactors.

HERMES QUARTET
Omer Bouchez, violin
Elise Liu, violin
Yung-Hsin Lou Chang, viola 
Yan Levionnois, cello

January 2026