Four voices,
one music.

Four players, one breath.

The Branch Quartet was formed in Berlin in 2018, when its four members — by then already concert soloists in their own right — began meeting on Tuesday evenings in a small studio in Kreuzberg, simply to play. The conversations that emerged from those rehearsals became the ensemble's first season, and the quartet has not stopped since.

The name belongs to that beginning: four voices growing from a single idea, distinct yet inseparable. Today the ensemble performs across Europe's major chamber halls, releases on the Deutsche Grammophon Stage label, and devotes one programme each season to a newly commissioned work.

The quartet is in residence at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin from 2025 through 2028.