The violist Ori Kam has stepped down from the Jerusalem Quartet after 15 years. He says: ‘The past few years have been challenging for me and the quartet’. He speaks also of ‘new professional opportunities.’
The quartet will try out violist Mathis Rochat on US tour this season and Alexander Gordon in Europe.
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