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St Nicholas' Church
Jane Street
High Bradfield
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S6 6LG
England
Tickets
Prices: £17 / £10 (under 25 years)
Season tickets: £142 Patron Pass all 7 Festival concerts at a reduced price
Booking line: 0114 285 1573
Book Tickets
Programme
Anton Webern – Langsamer Satz
Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet no.2 in A minor, Op.13
~ Interval ~
Dmitry Shostakovich – String Quartet no.7 in F sharp minor, Op.108
Anna Meredith – Honeyed words
Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor, Op.10
Performers
Zosia Herlihy-O’Brien – violin
Emily Harrison – violin
Beatrice Slocumbe – viola
Hoda Jahanpour – cello
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Programme Note
Described as ‘exciting young artists who bring fresh ideas’, the Woolf Quartet comprising Zosia Herlihy-O’Brien and Emily Harrison (violins), Beatrice Slocumbe (viola), Hoda Jahanpour (cello), are postgraduate students from the Royal Academy of Music and currently Learning Ensemble and Participation Fellows at the Wigmore Hall. They each have their own rich and varied performance history and a reputation for bringing together familiar works with less well known, contemporary works. The quartet frequently rehearse where Virginia Woolf once lived, from which they take their name.
Recent highlights include working with composer Anna Meredith to perform her pieces involving electronics; performances at Deal Music and Arts, 1901 Arts Club, and the Purcell Room at Southbank Centre; and a series of concerts and workshops as part of their fellowship.
Their programme includes a new composition of their own alongside more familiar quartets from the last 200 years by Mendelssohn, Debussy and Shostakovich.
Zosia Herlihy-O’Brien (violin), prize winning New Zealander is in demand as a solo, orchestral, and chamber musician, as well as an organist and conductor. She is the inaugural Organ Scholar of the Royal Albert Hall (2025–26) and Organist of the London Charterhouse.
Emily Harrison (violin) is an orchestral and chamber musician and soloist, outreach educator and graduate ambassador for the charity Music Masters.
Beatrice Slocumbe is a Black British violist from London, combining her freelance career with interdisciplinary collaboration, project creation and multi-genre composition. Beatrice is in the Chineke! Orchestra, performing with them at the BBC Proms, Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall and O2.
Hoda Jahanpour (cello) is an Iranian-Slovak cellist, songwriter, and composer drawn to musical experiences that generate energy and bring people together, from solo performances to sharing the stage with Nicola Benedetti as an Edinburgh International Festival Rising Star.
