String Quartet
Diary
Ashcroft Hall International Series
Haydn — String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 'Rider'
Janáček — String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
Beethoven — String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127
Gullane Music Society
Purcell — Fantazias a 4 (selection)
Britten — String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36
Schubert — String Quartet in A minor, D. 804 'Rosamunde'
Pre-concert talk at 18:15, free to ticket holders.
Sønderborg Kammermusikfestival
Nielsen — String Quartet in F, Op. 44
Beethoven — String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 'Serioso'
Fenmere Chamber Music Festival — residency
The complete Op. 18 quartets across three evenings
Open rehearsal: Beethoven Op. 18 No. 6, Saturday morning
Three concerts, an open rehearsal and a schools day across the weekend.
Salle Vauban Concerts
Debussy — String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Ravel — String Quartet in F
Fauré — String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121
St Jude's Lunchtime Series
Mozart — String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Free admission, retiring collection.
Wintergarten Saal
Beethoven — String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Ann Tessier — Sightlines (Marin Quartet commission)
Haydn — String Quartet in D, Op. 76 No. 5
Shostakovich — String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
Schumann — String Quartet in A, Op. 41 No. 3
Sala Bellini
Verdi — String Quartet in E minor
Puccini — Crisantemi
Beethoven — String Quartet in B flat, Op. 130, with the Grosse Fuge
Northgate Arts Centre
Ann Tessier — Sightlines
Janáček — String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters'
Beethoven — String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
Trelawney Festival
Programme to be announced.
Ashcroft Hall International Series
Mendelssohn — String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Ann Tessier — Sightlines
Schubert — String Quintet in C, D. 956, with Marta Lindqvist, cello
Kilmory Chamber Music Weekend
Two evening concerts and a masterclass for young quartets.
Hafnia Quartet Series
Nielsen — String Quartet in E flat, Op. 14
Beethoven — String Quartet in F, Op. 135
30 July 2026 Brackenhurst Summer Festival, Brackenhurst, Yorkshire
3 July 2026 Marlow Music Club, Old Assembly Hall, Marlow
18 June 2026 Ryedale Chamber Series, Ryedale, North Yorkshire
17 May 2026 St Jude's Lunchtime Series, St Jude's, Bristol
1 April 2026 Sala Bellini, Faenza, Italy
3 February 2026 Ashcroft Hall International Series, Ashcroft Hall, Manchester
3 December 2025 Wintergarten Saal, Winterthur, Switzerland
2 October 2025 Fenmere Chamber Music Festival, Fenmere, Norfolk
12 July 2025 Gullane Music Society, Parish Church, Gullane
14 April 2025 Salle Vauban Concerts, Lille, France
26 January 2025 Northgate Arts Centre, Northgate Arts Centre, Durham
1 October 2024 Trelawney Festival — debut, Trelawney, Cornwall
Recent
Four days in the church at Fenmere with the doors shut against the weather, and the second volume of the Beethoven cycle is done. Nos. 4, 5 and 6, out in the spring.
Volume three — and with it the end of a three-year project — is booked for next autumn.
Ann Tessier's Sightlines, which we premiered at Ashcroft Hall last year, goes out with us this season to Winterthur, Durham and Manchester.
Ann writes about the piece: "It began as a study in what four people can see of each other while they play. The quartet kept telling me it was harder than it looked, which I took as encouragement."
We are delighted to be continuing as Quartet in Residence at Ashcroft Hall for a further three seasons, with three concerts a year, an open rehearsal each season and the schools programme that has grown alongside it.
The Ryedale concert came off the calendar three days before, when the hall's roof repairs overran. Rather than lose the day we took the programme to the village school down the road and played it twice, to a hundred and ten children who had never seen a string quartet.
It is rescheduled for next season, roof permitting.
On record
Fenmere Records, September 2025
Elin Marsh, violin
Tomas Reinholt, violin
Nadia Ferrers, viola
Joseph Okonkwo, cello
The first volume of a three-year traversal, recorded in the church at Fenmere over four days in a cold February.
Recording of the Month — The Chamber Music Review Editor's Choice — Concertgoer
Fenmere Records, April 2023
Elin Marsh, violin
Tomas Reinholt, violin
Nadia Ferrers, viola
Joseph Okonkwo, cello
Both Janáček quartets either side of Ann Tessier's Sightlines — the pairing the quartet has taken round Europe since.
Shortlisted, Northern Arts Journal Recording Prize