The Satori-Quartet was founded in Turin, Italy in 2008 and soon after started its stage career. From the very beginning a lively artistic exchange between the quartet and the composers Michael Quell and Martin Sadowski was brought into being. Here the first pieces already world premiered.
In 2010 the quartet is booked for several international appearances in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Brazil. A CD with contemporary music will be available in 2011.
The Quartet considers itself as a chamber music ensemble that wants to open guitar music to a wider audience both by maintaining the classical guitar repertoire and by interpreting the works dedicated to the guitar quartet.
The artists consciously choose this tension between contemporary music and guitarist tradition to demonstrate the versatility of this instrumentation. Loyalty to the text and interpretative clarity as well as concentration and a playful presence characterize the performance of the four musicians.

Wiebke Rademacher, born in Troisdorf near Bonn in 1990, began taking guitar lessons at the age of five. Numerous prices at the “Jugend musiziert” competition as well as a first prize in the prestigious “Hanns Bisegger” competition showcased her remarkable talent at a young age.

Since the age of fourteen Wiebke Rademacher has been a member of various guitar ensembles such as the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg and the Bielefeld Guitar Ensemble with whom she has already toured Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Holland. Furthermore she attended numerous master classes with P. Steidl, A. Svete, T. Müller-Pering, Duo Kaltchev and Carlo Marchione.

Since 2008 Wiebke Rademacher has been studying guitar at the Conservatorium Maastricht with Carlo Marchione as well as musicology and history at the University of Cologne.

Conny Lorenz, geboren 1987 in Waiblingen, erhielt mit sieben Jahren ihren ersten Gitarrenunterricht bei Steffen Retz an der Städtischen Musikschule Unteres Remstal. Mehrere Bundespreise beim Wettbewerb „Jugend musiziert“ in den Jahren 2000, 2003 und 2006 belegen eindrucksvoll ihre frühe musikalische Begabung.

2003 wird Conny Lorenz ständiges Mitglied im Jugendgitarrenorchester Baden-Württemberg dessen zahlreiche Konzerte im In- und Ausland (u.a. in China, Südkorea und in Georgien) eindrucksvoll den Stellenwert des Orchesters dokumentieren, welchen es sich über die Jahre hinweg in Fachkreisen erarbeitet hat.

Seit 2007 studiert Conny Lorenz Schulmusik mit Hauptfach Gitarre an der staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart bei Tillmann Reinbeck. Meisterkurse u.a. bei P. Steidl, T. Müller-Pering und H. Käppel ergänzen ihre Ausbildung.

Karl Christoph Rensch, born in Heidelberg in 1985, comes from a family of musicians. He started taking cello and guitar lessons at the music school of Heidelberg. His teachers included Helmut Oesterreich who has mainly influenced his approach to contemporary music.

Karl Christoph Rensch has been a section leader in the Ensemble GuitArt and in the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg for several years whose numerous concerts at home and abroad (China, Central America and Cuba, among others) impressively document the orchestra’s remarkable reputation it had gained in the guitar world over the years.

Since 2006 Karl Christoph Rensch has been studying guitar and sound engineering at the Robert-Schumann- University of Düsseldorf.

Michael Zeuner, born in Heilbronn in 1980, took guitar lessons with Stephan Jeremias until the age of 19. During that time he successfully participated at the “Jugend musiziert” competition on a local and regional level.

He joined the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg in 1995 together with Mathias Göppel and from that time on he has been focusing on the ensemble playing in various instrumentations. Appearances with the Süddeutsches Guitar Orchestra, the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Hessen, the Ensemble GuitArt and the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg refer to an active stage career that has continued until today.

Mathias Göppel, born in Ulm in 1981, started taking guitar lessons at the age of seven. In 1995, after a price winning participation at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition he became the youngest member of the Youth Guitar Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg ever.
His main interest besides classical music is jazz music. Many years he played the electric guitar with the Big- Band Ulm and is currently playing in various small jazz groups.