VIENNA QUARTET


Vienna Quartet performs a large array of music from pre-Classical to jazz and specialises in Viennese style classical music, exemplified by Strauss, Lehar and Keisler. The quartet's repertoire includes French, Italian, German and Russian compositions as well as South African traditional music.

The Vienna Quartet is based in Gauteng and performs regularly in Johannesburg and Pretoria. They have performed all over southern Africa and were members of the National Symphony Orchestra of the SABC.

Adrian Ignat is the first violin. He was born in Rumania and graduated from the Bucharest College of Music where he obtained a Masters Degree in Violin from the Bucharest Conservatoire. For five years he played with the Bucharest Radio Orchestra. He has toured many European Countries including Italy, France, Australia, Germany and Russia. For two years he was leader of the Caracas Chamber Orchestra and came to South Africa in 1985 to join the National Symphony Orchestra of the SABC.