S-ensemble... the Spiegel Ensemble? The Saminski Ensemble? Or simply « äs ensemble » as you would say "ensemble" in swiss german ? It's up to your fantasy. The four young musicians from three different nations met for playing chamber music for the first time in the summer of 2007 in the beautiful Villa Irniger in Zürich. It was to be decided: would this combination of four individual musicians with a different background succeed, are the musical ambitions similar and does one want to get started on this demanding project ? The answer was clearly yes and so the new founded ensemble gave its first concerts in January 2008 in Switzerland, France and Russia. In the upcomming season 08/09 the s-ensemble will perform piano quartets by Beethoven, Turina and Fauré as well as the premiere of the first piano quartet written by the young swiss composer Rodolphe Schacher.