The Aviv Quartet was founded in 1997 and has appeared at many venues throughout Israel, including the Jerusalem Music Center (Mishkenot Shaanim), the Jaffa Music Center, and the Tel-Aviv Museum of Arts. In 1998, the quartet participated in the summer course given by members of the Amadeus Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
In July 1998, it performed as the resident quartet at the Kfar Blum Festival (Upper Galilee Music Days). In addition to participating in the Amadeus Quartet Week, the Aviv Quartet has participated in master classes given by Ivri Gitlis, Levon Chilingirian, Henry Meyer, Arnold Steinhardt, and Miriam Fried, and in June 1998 was the Israeli representative at the ģEncountersī chamber music course in Jerusalem under the direction of Maestro Isaac Stern and with the participation of members of the Emerson and Juilliard Quartets. In May 1998, the Aviv Quartet won Second prize at the International String Quartet Competition at the Prague Spring Festival.
As of October 1998, the Aviv Quartet will be studying with the members of the Alban Berg Quartet in Köln, Germany.
All members of the quartet are recipients of scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
The quartet can be contacted as follows: