Petersen Quartet

The Petersen Quartet named after its founder Ulrike Petersen, is a German string quartet. It was founded in 1979 at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in East Berlin and is regarded as one of the internationally renowned German chamber music ensembles of the late GDR period and the years following German reunification. After a hiatus of several years, the ensemble has been active again since the mid-2020s.