“Salut Salon is a passion that just has to get out.”

20 years of virtuosity, wit & worldwide success: For two decades, Salut Salon have known how to cast a spell over their audience like hardly any other formation - irrevocably, from the very first note. With virtuoso joy of playing and sparkling humor, artistic instrumental acrobatics and enchanting charm, Angelika Bachmann (violin), Alvina Lahyani (violin), Mara Kochendörfer (cello) and Kristiina Rokashevich (piano) take entire concert halls into a world of their own, into surprising, unusual, completely magical realms of music. For whatever can be combined with the classical music they love so much, the four musicians combine it: from tango to chanson to folk and film music, from singing saws and poetic puppetry to Vivaldi with Kung Fu. As confidently as self-ironically, Salut Salon go beyond the scope of classical concerts, and even more: they amaze the lovers of this music - and just as much those people who would otherwise never set foot in a concert hall in the first place.

“For us, there is no such thing as 'e-music' or 'u-music,' but only music that we like or don't like. We play the whole alphabet of emotional states: B for intoxicated, L for love-drunk, S for longing, W for angry,” says Angelika Bachmann, the founder and first violinist of Salut Salon. “At Salut Salon, everything is possible, and there is nothing that doesn't go together. We have our own party on stage every night - and I think you can feel that all the way to the last row of the hall.”

There's little comparison for Salut Salon's success: the quartet is collecting numerous awards, including an ECHO Klassik. The instrumental-acrobatic adaptation of Vivaldi's “Summer - Wettstreit zu viert” went viral and now counts more than 36 million views on YouTube. Above all, however, Salut Salon tours the globe, through Europe, Israel, the USA, China, Kenya, Korea or South America - always including moderation in the respective national language.