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- 1 2 details at the German Music Information Centre
- ↑ Kairos Quartett at the Music Information Center Austria (as of September 2010)
- ↑ Kairos Quartett on Startseite
- ↑ German Record Critics' Prize for Haas' String Quartets with the Kairos Quartet on Deutschlandradio of 1 March 2005
- ↑ Akademie Schloss Solitude 2000/2001
