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    Navarra & Sacconi String Quartets

    Concert Date: 20 February 2010
     
    Navarra Quartet

      Xander Van Vliet (violin)
      Marije Ploemacher (violin)
      Simone van der Giessen (viola)
      Nathaniel Boyd ('cello)

    Sacconi Quartet

      Ben Hancox (violin)
      Hannah Dawson (violin)
      Robin Ashwell (viola)
      Cara Berridge ('cello)

         

    Richard Strauss - Sextet from Capriccio
    Brahms - Sextet in B flat Op.18
    Mendelssohn - Octet in E flat Op.20

 

Programme Notes

Formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of the late Dr Christopher Rowland, the Navarra Quartet were Junior Fellows at the RNCM and postgraduate students of the Alban Berg Quartet in Cologne. In 2007 the Quartet won First Prize in the Melbourne and in 2005 1st Prize in the Florence International Competitions.

The Navarra Quartet has won numerous prizes and awards, in 2006 being selected for representation by YCAT and receiving Tunnell Trust, Tillett Trust and Musicians Benevolent Fund Awards. They have taken part in the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove and in 2008 returned as resident quartet to the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh and were Quartet in Residence at the Verbier Festival.

Over the last year the Quartet has given debut concerts at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Rheingau Festivals in Germany, recorded for BBC Radio 3 at LSO St Lukes, given recitals at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and RNCM Chamber Music Festival and returned to Sweden and Italy. They also worked with Wayne MacGregor’s Random Dance Company on a new piece called Entity with music by Joby Talbot giving a series of performances at Sadler’s Wells and in Aldeburgh, Madrid and Amsterdam.

Formed in 2001 at the Royal College of Music, the Sacconi Quartet has rapidly gainied an enviable reputation as one of the outstanding quartets of their generation. The Quartet won 2nd Prize at the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition, along with the Esterhazy Prize & Sydney Griller Award, and 1st Prize in the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition. They also won the Kurtag Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, 1st Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League chamber music competition and were shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society award.

 

Quatuor Danel

 

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