Aurea String Quartet: Absolute Classics at Crichton Church, Dumfries on Thursday 16th February 2017

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Aurea String Quartet

Absolute Classics

Part of the Absolute Classics 2016-17 Season

Add to my Calendar 16-02-2017 19:30 16-02-2017 21:30 36 Aurea String Quartet Abbey Hayward (cello), Christine Anderson (viola), Philip Brett (violin), Rosemary Attree (violin) Based in Glasgow, the Aurea Quartet comprises four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.During their first year performing together, they achieved joint first prize at the 2011 Cavatina Intercollegiate Quartet Competition in London, and won all of the chamber music prizes at the RCS. They gave their Wigmore Hall debut in February 2012 as part of the Pro Corda Musical Encounters Programme. Later that year, they were finalists in the 1st Sándor Végh International String Quartet Competition in Budapest where they were awarded a special prize for their outstanding performance of Lajtha String Quartet No.7. They were winners of the St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber music prize 2014 which has resulted in concert engagements across Britain. After a series of successful auditions in 2014, the Quartet has been selected for the  Enterprise Music Scotland Residency Project 2014-16, as St John’s Smith Square Young Artists 2014-15, and as resident quartet for the 2015 Wye Valley Chamber Festival.Collectively, the Quartet have studied with members of the Alban Berg, Brodsky, Belcea, Chilingirian, Carducci, Endellion, Eroica, Jerusalem, and Mosaiques Quartets, they are also regular attendees at the London Chamber Studio classes in Kings Place. Crichton Church, Dumfries DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Crichton Church
Easterbrook Hall, Bank End Road
Dumfries
Dumfries and Galloway
DG1 4TA
Scotland

Thursday 16th February 2017
7:30 PM

Programme

Béla Bartók – String Quartet no.1, Op.7 (Sz.40)
Dmitry Shostakovich – 2 Pieces for String Quartet: Elegy; Polka
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.62 in C major 'The Emperor', Op.76 no.3, Hob III:77

Performers

Aurea String Quartet

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Programme Note

Abbey Hayward (cello), Christine Anderson (viola), Philip Brett (violin), Rosemary Attree (violin)

Based in Glasgow, the Aurea Quartet comprises four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

During their first year performing together, they achieved joint first prize at the 2011 Cavatina Intercollegiate Quartet Competition in London, and won all of the chamber music prizes at the RCS. They gave their Wigmore Hall debut in February 2012 as part of the Pro Corda Musical Encounters Programme. Later that year, they were finalists in the 1st Sándor Végh International String Quartet Competition in Budapest where they were awarded a special prize for their outstanding performance of Lajtha String Quartet No.7. They were winners of the St Martin-in-the-Fields chamber music prize 2014 which has resulted in concert engagements across Britain. After a series of successful auditions in 2014, the Quartet has been selected for the Enterprise Music Scotland Residency Project 2014-16, as St John’s Smith Square Young Artists 2014-15, and as resident quartet for the 2015 Wye Valley Chamber Festival.

Collectively, the Quartet have studied with members of the Alban Berg, Brodsky, Belcea, Chilingirian, Carducci, Endellion, Eroica, Jerusalem, and Mosaiques Quartets, they are also regular attendees at the London Chamber Studio classes in Kings Place.

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