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Home 2010/11 Season Concert 5

    Vanburgh String Quartet
    with Michael Collins (clarinet)

    Concert Date: 19 February 2011

    Prokofiev: Quartet No.1 in B minor Op. 50
    Lera Auerbach: Quartet No. 3
    Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
     

Programme Notes

Winner of the 1988 London International String Quartet Competition and now in its twenty-fourth concert season, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet is one of Europe's most successful ensembles internationally recognised for its beauty of sound, clarity of texture and integrity of interpretation within an unusually wide and varied range of repertoire. Familiar visitors to all the main UK festivals the Vanbrugh Quartet also broadcasts frequently for BBC Radio 3 and performs regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank.

The Quartet enjoys a thriving international career with past appearances including concerts in Berlin (Konzerthaus), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Hungary (Liszt Academy), Poland (Lancut Festival), Spain (Galicia Festival), Flanders Festival, Menuhin Festival, Gstaad plus numerous visits to Scandinavia where recordings were made of the complete Beethoven quartets. The quartet tours the USA on a regular basis with performances in Carnegie Hall, New York and The Kennedy Centre in Washington.

Based in Cork as Resident Quartet to Radio Telefis Eireann, Ireland's national broadcasting service; the members of the Quartet are also Artists in Residence to University College, Cork, and founders of the internationally acclaimed West Cork Chamber Music Festival. In April 2005 the Quartet hosted European Quartet Week as part of Cork’s tenure as European Capital of Culture.

 

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