The Jerusalem Quartet, formed through the Jerusalem Music Center and the Israel-America Cultural Foundation in 1993, is an Israeli string quartet. After winning the Jerusalem Chamber Music Competition in 1996 and the International Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Graz in 1997, the ensemble signed a recording contract with Harmonia Mundi in 2003. Their classical album releases include Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen in 2008, Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 in 2011, Mozart: String Quartets in 2011, Shostakovich: String Quartets in 2012, Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 6 in 2016, and Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets in 2018. The ensemble performed Dmitri Shostakovich's complete string quartet cycle in 2006, earning an ECHO Klassik Award in 2009 and three BBC Music Magazine Awards.
