The Wave Quartet came into being when the world-renowned marimba player Bogdan Bacanu was making an adaptation for his instrument of JS Bach’s three concertos for two harpischords. He teamed up with his former pupil Christoph Sietzen – a prizewinner in the 2014 ARD International Music Competition and a Rising Star of the European Concert Hall Organisation for the 2017/18 season – with Emiko Uchiyama who had won a number of international marimba competitions – and with Nico Gerstmayer who is a percussionist in the Bruckner Orchester Linz. The ensemble made its debut in 2008 at the Berlin Konzerthaus, performing Bach’s C major concerto in a version for four marimbas. Since then, the music of Bach and contemporaries has been of key importance in the Wave Quartets broad repertoire that extends as far as Astor Piazzolla to the current new arrangement of Bizet’s “Carmen”, which was released on CD in Autumn 2019 by Sony Classical. Concerts and masterclasses have taken the Wave Quartet around both Europe and Asia in venues such as Cologne Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin and Vienna, Müpa Budapest, Town Hall Birmingham, Bozar Brussels and Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as Suntory Hall Tokyo and have led to appearances with orchestras like the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Romanian National Symphony Orchestra or the L’Orfeo Barockorchester.