The Fitzwilliam Quartet – Lucy Russell, Jonathan Sparey (violins), Alan George (viola), Heather Tuach (cello) – in a concert featuring some fine English string music by Purcell, David Blake and Elgar, together with Mozart and Josef Suk’s Meditation, composed at the beginning of the first World War.

The German-based Trio Parnassus – Chia Chou (piano), Yamei Yu (violin), Michael Gross (cello) – present a concert of Viennese masterworks by Haydn and Schubert and Hummel’s Piano Trio, composed in 1811.


Here is a PHOTO of the PARNASSUS TRIO at KINGS PLACE.

The recent Quartet No.5 by the Austrian-born composer Joseph Horowitz follows Haydn’s ‘Frog’ quartet - named after the sound of some interesting string-crossing effects. Dvorak’s ‘American’, perhaps the most famous of his fourteen quartets, was composed in Iowa in 1893.

Listen to sound files of Carducci Quartet here

Here are PHOTOS of the Carducci Quartet at Kings Place.

As an ENCORE the quartet played "Four for Tango" by PIAZZOLLA which you can watch on YouTube here.

The Elias Quartet – Sara Bitlloch and Donald Grant (violins), Martin Saving (viola), Marie Bitlloch (cello) - perform Mozart’s famous ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, Schubert’s G minor quartet from 1815 and Britten’s second quartet, composed to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of Purcell’s death in 1945.

Listen to sound files of the Elias String Quartet here


Here is a PHOTO of the Elias Quartet after their performance.

The Fibonacci Sequence – Ileana Ruhemann (flute), Benjamin Nabarro (violin), Yuko Inoue (viola), Benjamin Hughes (cello), Kathron Sturrock (piano) – perform chamber music for flute, strings and piano, and present the 1st performance of a recently discovered piano quartet by Frank Bridge from 1901.

Here is a PHOTO of Fibonacci Sequence after their performance.

A concert of the three great Russian sonatas for cello and piano from the twentieth-century:

Rachmaninov’s sonata from 1901, Shostakovich’s from 1934 and Prokofiev’s from the last years of his life in 1949.

Here is a PHOTO of Robert and Heini in rehearsal on the day.

The premiere of the finely wrought ‘Birth of Orpheus’ by Alan Mills is accompanied by the beautiful, yet rarely heard ‘Il Tramonto’ by Respighi from 1914, after Shelley’s poem ‘The Sunset’. Famous quartets by Haydn and Ravel complete the programme.

Here is a PHOTO of the Tippett Quartet after their performance.

The Badke Quartet – Heather Badke, Emma Parker (violins), Eniko Magyar (viola), Jonathan Byers (cello) – won 1st prize and the audience prize at the prestigious 2007 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Their programme includes two Viennese masterworks and Schumann’s A major quartet from 1842.

Listen to sound files of the Badke Quartet here

Here is a PHOTO of the Tippett Quartet after their performance.

Ruth Palmer won the Young British Classical Performer award at the Classical BRITs last year. She is joined by the Ukrainian pianist Alexei Grynyuk in a programme that features some fine east-European music for violin and piano and the premiere of a new work composed by her father, the composer Geoff Palmer.

Here is a PHOTO of Ruth and Alexei after their performance.

The famous Chilingirian Quartet – Levon Chilingirian, Richard Ireland (violins), Susie Mészáros (viola) and Philip de Groote (cello) – perform Mozart’s only string quartet in a minor key, Mendelssohn’s F minor quartet from 1847 (his last major composition), and Bela Bartók’s third quartet, completed in Budapest in 1926.

Here is a PHOTO of the Chilingirian Quartet after their performance.

The Lendvai String Trio – Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello) – in a programme of music by Michael Haydn (Joseph Haydn’s younger brother),
Beethoven and James Francis Brown – his String Trio from 1996, a modern classic in the medium.

Listen to sound files of the Lendvai String Trio here

Here is a PHOTO of the Lendvai Trio after their performance.

A concert of famous English, Italian and German baroque music given by the Concertante of London, directed by Sir Nicholas Jackson from the harpsichord. Their programme includes a secular cantata by J.S. Bach dating from 1729 (‘He does not know what it is to suffer’), about the departure of a young man to sea to enter military service. It is Bach’s only surviving cantata set in Italian.

Here is a PHOTO of the Concertante after their performance.

The Chiron Piano Trio – Daniel Becker (piano), Ning Kam (violin) and Thomas Carroll (cello) – perform late works by Haydn (dating from 1793) and Faure (1923). In between they present Alexander Goehr’s Trio, an important work in his oeuvre, dating from 1966.

International soloists Martino Tirimo (piano), Ben Sayovich (violin) and Daniel Veiss (cello) in a pair of beautiful Viennese masterworks, followed by Tchaikovsky’s mighty piano trio in A minor from 1882.

The famous Wihan Quartet in a programme featuring their native Czech music and opening with Mozart’s sublime G major quartet from late 1782. The Dvorak work in the last of his fourteen string quartets, premiered in Vienna in 1896.



You can view a short VIDEO here.

With works by Schubert and Faure, the Primrose Quartet - Susanne Stanzeleit (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), John Thwaites (piano) - present two British pieces in their programme, the Bridge ‘Phantasy’ Quartet, an early work composed in 1905, and the London premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ new Piano Quartet.

The Chilingirian Quartet is one of the world’s most celebrated and widely travelled ensembles renowned for their thrilling interpretations of the great quartets and commanding performances of the contemporary repertoire.

The Quartet was founded in 1971 by Levon Chilingirian and Philip De Groote. Whilst each member is a virtuoso musician, their success as a quartet has earned them the Royal Philharmonic Society’s coveted Chamber Ensemble Award. The Chilingirian is 'Quartet-in-Residence' at the Royal College of Music in London, resident ensemble at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and in 2005 had a residency at the University of California at Irvine. Places on the Chilingirian’s annual chamber music course run at West Dean in England are eagerly sought by aspiring young professional and amateur ensembles.