Colin Twigg Catherine Schofield Michael Schofield Lucy Wilding
You can find highlights of some of our performances below (just click the title and it will take you to the event), but there is also a complete listing here.
This prestigious concert took place on 18 June 2008 and featured works by Frank Bridge, Dvořák and Schubert. Details can be found here.
Henry Purcell / Benjamin Britten Chacony
William Alwyn Three Winter Poems
Frank Bridge Trio Rhapsody for two violins and viola
Frederick Delius Late Swallows
Frank Bridge String Quartet No. 2
The concert was supported by the William Alwyn Trust and the Royal College of Music Frank Bridge Bequest.
W4 Sunday Series
Bartok, Smetana and Haydn
Winter concert - W4 Sunday Series
Tippett, Haydn and Beethoven
Haydn, Barber and Dvořák
An exploration of classical music from Western and Sikh tradition with artists from the Raj Academy.
A write up of the event by one of the audience can be found here.
Tuscany is a treat at all times, but giving a couple of concerts in beautiful surroundings was an added bonus for the Quartet.
The first concert was in an outstanding Romanesque Church in Gropina, a hillside village near Loro Cuiffena and originally a site for a Roman temple. The concert was part of the 14th International Quartet Festival and the venue boasted excellent acoustics and attracted a capacity audience.
For the second concert, the quartet headed off to a wine centre in the middle of Chianti country. The venue was a beautiful deconsecrated Church on a site up in the hills with the scent of herbs and, particularly, Roman Mint. The concert was part of a summer series attracting an excellent audience who were not only offered good quartet music ... Bridge Schubert and Ravel ... but also supper and choice wine for afters! What more could anyone want?
Once again, the Quartet performed at the Cambridge Festival and then ran one of their prestigious coaching sessions, thanks to the kind hosting of Ruth Rattenbury. Quartets attended from far and wide and enjoyed the opportunity to practise their own chosen works with some help and coaching (details of both events).
Friday 29 June 2007
As part of their work in the community, the Quartet performed two concerts at St Paul's Church in Brentford. Details of the concerts can be found here.
The first concert was part of a project involving local schools which was sponsored by ISIS Waterside Regeneration who are involved in the regeneration of the local Waterside. The students, from four local schools, listened to the music and participated in a demonstration of rhythm. Prizes were presented for some of the drawings and paintings that had been made when members of the Quartet worked in the schools prior to the concert.
The second concert of the day was as part of the "Elderly People's Festival". An enthusiastic audience enjoyed a selection of music, including the Quartet's namesake, Frank Bridge.
Elgar's 150th anniversary was celebrated with a series of concerts during May 2007 in the prestigious new offices of the The Spectator at 22 Old Queen Street in London - the house that saw many performances of Elgar's work in the past. Details can be found here.
23 October 2006
Shostakovich Quartet no 7
Mozart Dissonance Quartet
Dvorak Quartet in C op 61
The Fayence String Quartet Festival celebrated its 18th anniversary in 2006. The festival is held in the Autumn of each year in the beautiful villages around the hilltop town of Fayence in the south of France. Famous quartets and musicians from around the world perform in Churches of the villages perchés in the surrounding area. On 23 October, the Bridge Quartet, famous for "forging a graceful reputation for interesting programmes and the promotion of British music," performed in the Eglise de Montauroux.
22 October 2006
Mozart Piano quartet in G minor
Mozart Dissonance Quartet
Bridge Piano Quintet
Aubagne, situated just west of Marseille, is famous as the birthplace of François-Marie, Marquis de Barthélemy and Director of the First French Republic and the film director and writer, Marcel Pagnol. The town is host to a film festival and the Quartet played in the in the Théâtre Comœdia on 22 October. The Quartet was billed as, "supremely master of its performance ... sometimes dramatic, sometimes lyrical, sometimes lighthearted or full of humour, delivering an outstanding message of fullness and spontaneity."
21 October 2006
Mozart Piano quartet in G minor
Mozart Dissonance Quartet
Bridge Piano Quintet
Samuel Coleridge Taylor Clarinet Quintet
Alwyn 3 Poems
Mozart Clarinet Quintet