The Javus Quartet is a string quartet based in Salzburg, Austria. The four young musicians Marie-Therese Schwöllinger, Alexandra Moser, Anuschka Cidlinsky and Oscar Hagen have been playing together for years in various different ensembles before they founded the Javus Quartet in 2013.
The Quartet is currently studying chamber music with Lukas Hagen and Rainer Schmidt at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. The members of the Hagen Quartett influenced the young quartet substantially in their development.
The Javus Quartet works with renowned chamber music professors on a regular basis, for example Eberhard Feltz, Gerhard Schulz and Valentin Erben (Alban Berg Quartet), Michael Vogler, Thomas Adès and Christoph Poppen were particularly important for their evolvement.
The quartet was invited to participate in the 2019 IMS Masterclass Prussia Cove. They partook in the renowned festivals Mattseer Diabelli and Mondseer Musiktage (artistic directors Auryn Quartet) in Austria and had the opportunity to play at Israel International Festival  with Jean and Agnes Sulem (Rosamunde Quartet) and Avri Levitan as a part of the Musethica program. 
In 2017 they were awarded the 2nd prize at the Chamber Music Competition C.R.D.M in Udine, Italy and are present on national and international stages. 

MARIE-THERESE SCHWÖLLINGER

VIOLIN

Born 1996 in Austria, Marie-Therese studied with Lukas Hagen at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and with Stephan Picard at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns-Eisler“ in Berlin. At austrian violin competitions she received many first prices, as a soloist and chamber musician and won the international “Ars nova competition” 2012 in Trieste, Italy. In 2011 she was selected to participate at the “Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy” of the Vienna Philharmonics and had the opportunity to work with some of the members. She was the concertmaster of the Salzburger Regional Youth Orchestra. She received further musical Impulses from Ulf Wallin, David Frühwirth, Barbara Doll und Leonidas Kavakos and Rainer Schmidt. Since 2015 she is a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and worked with conductors like Kent Nagano, David Afkham, Christoph Eschenbach, Philippe Jordan and Daniel Harding and played in the most important concert halls in Europa with soloists like Gautier Capucon, Frank Peter Zimmermann und Christian Gerharer. Since 2017 she is also a member of the orchestra „European Philharmonic of Switzerland“. She performed at prestigious festivals such as Diabelli Sommer Mattsee, Monte Castelli Music Festival, Kronberg Academy Mit Musik Miteinander, Verbier Festival, Aurora Festival, Eggenfelden Klassisch And Hohenstaufen Akademie. There she played with Lukas Hagen, Clemens Hagen, Iris Juda Hagen, Herbert Schuch, Thomas Reif, Timothy Ridout, Alena Baeva, Ryszard Groblewski and Kian Soltani. 

ALEXANDRA MOSER

VIOLIN

Alexandra Moser was born 30.11.1995 in Salzburg.
She received her first violin lesson at the age of four. When she turned twelve, she was accepted to the class of Prof. Lukas Hagen and Christine Maria Höller at Mozarteum University Salzburg. From a very young age, she has been taking part in several competitions with great success.
In 2007, she made her solo debut with Haydn’s violin concerto G-major at the „Große Aula“ of University Salzburg. Furthermore, she performed as a soloist with orchestras, such as the Philharmonie Salzburg and The Chamber Youth Orchestra Salzburg.
Since 2012, she is member of the agency LiveMusicNow and was also part of the international chamber music project Mit-Musik-Miteinander at the Kronberg Academy.
​Since 2014, she has been studying the Violin Bachelor’s programme with Prof. Lukas Hagen at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Additionally to that, she drew inspiration from working together with Nora Chastain, Rainer Schmidt, Pierre Amoyal, Friedemann Eichhorn, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Vadim Gluzman, and David Frühwirth.
Currently, she is working at the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg for the season 2017/2018.

ANUSCHKA CIDLINSKY

VIOLA

Born 1996 in Germany, Anuschka studied with Thomas Riebl at Mozarteum Salzburg and with Jean Sulem at the Conservatoire de Paris.
In 2016 she won the Streichwerk International Competition in Berlin. She achieved in the german national youth competition “Jugend musiziert” for Viola solo prizes at state level. She received further musical impulses from Tabea Zimmermann, Nobuko Imai, Tatjana Masurenko, Barbara Westphal, Hartmut Rhode, Igor Ozim, Thomas Brandis.  As a passionate chamber musician Anuschka performed with Timothy Ridout, Thomas Reif, Kian Soltani, Alena Baeva, Maciek Kulakowski and Ziyu He.  She performed at prestigious festivals such as „Mit Musik Miteinander“ of Kronberg Academy,
Rheingau Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Verbier Festival with artists such as Vilde Frang, Antoine Tamestit, Kiril Gerstein, Daniel Harding, Frans Helmerson and Semyon Bychkov.
Anuschka works as a substitute for the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Camerata Salzburg.
Anuschka plays on a modern instrument of Bernd Hiller.


OSCAR HAGEN

CELLO

Oscar Hagen was born 1996 in Salzburg. He studied at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Giovanni Gnocchi and is currently studying at the University for Music and performing Arts in Vienna with Stefan Kropfitsch. In summer 2015 he won the 1st prize at the international Pre
mio Crescendo Competition in Florence. As a soloist he played in Italy. 
2015 and 2016 he was member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and 2017 he was Academist of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Since 2018 Oscar is member and guest solo cellist of the Alma Mahler Kammerorchester.
He played already in  prestigious concert halls like the Salzburger Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern, the Vienna Musikverein, in Lisbon, Madrid, Athens and many more.
Oscar worked and played with world famous musicians and conductors like Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph Eschenbach, David Afkham, Wolfgang Böttcher, Claudio Bohorquez, Lukas and Clemens Hagen, Herbert Schuch, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Gautier Capucon and Daniel Harding.