Salut Salon, a chamber music quartet from Hamburg, Germany, was founded in 2000 by violinists Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried. The duo initially performed together in the 1980s before expanding into a quartet with Ameli Winkler on piano and Simone Bachmann on cello. Their first public concert as a quartet took place at the Galerie Rose in Hamburg in 1999, followed by their debut album Was kann das Herz dafür in 2003 under Warner Music Group. The group's international tours began in 2005, with notable performances in the USA, China, and France. In 2016, they released Carnival Fantasy and made their debut at New York City’s Michael Schimmel Center with a concert of their program Carnival of the Animals and Other Fantasies. Alvina Lahyani joined Salut Salon as a violinist in 2023 following Iris Siegfried's departure.
