Concert Details

Levon Chilingirian violin
Ronald Birks violin
Susie Mészáros viola
Stephen Orton cello
Timothy Orpen clarinet

This newly formed partnership sees ROSL ARTS join with the London Chamber Music Society (LCMS) for a series of exciting chamber concerts. In this inaugural concert, the celebrated Chilingirian Quartet is joined by previous ROSL Annual Music Competition prize winner Timothy Orpen in the beautiful Clarinet Quintet by Brahms. Opening the concert is Sally Beamish’s ‘Opus California’ quartet, based on extracts from the first movement exposition of Beethoven’s String Quartet in C minor, Op.18 No.4 – its title related to a visit the composer made to a Festival in California in 1999 and leading nicely to Beethoven’s Op.135 quartet in F major with its famous “Muß es sein?” questioning theme.