Violins, viola, cello
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PROGRAMME SUGGESTIONS Once upon a time... Janacek: String Quartet No. 2 Intimate letters Cage: 'Story' from Living Room Music Smetana: String Quartet No.1 in E minor, From my life
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Genius interrupted Schubert String Quartet No.13 in A minor, Rosamunde Schulhoff: 5 Pieces for String Quartet Mozart: String Quartet No.15 in D minor Wartime: Before, during, after Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor Serioso Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for String Quartet Britten: String Quartet No.2 in C major
The Bloomsbury Quartet was formed in September 2017, when they met as postgraduate students of the Royal Academy of Music. Following their success as a 2018 Stroud Green Festival Ensemble Scheme winner, they will soon EDUCATIONAL WORK embark on their 2019/2020 UK tour, ‘ReCentred’, As the Wigmore Hall Learning a programme inspired by the works of Elizabeth Fellowship Ensemble 2018/19, the Maconchy. Highlights of 2018-19 include Bloomsbury Quartet has extensive experience collaborating with a performing in Petworth Festival and Lake District wide variety of people, as well as Summer Music Patron’s series, making their delivering workshops in schools Wigmore Hall debut, and reaching the finals of across the country. St Martin-in-the-Fields Competition. The Bloomsbury Quartet is passionate about creative “A superb contribution to the festival…magnificently assured and thought-provoking programming, and and stylish playing." engaging with and developing current and future Stewart Collins, Artistic Director of generations of music-lovers. Petworth Festival
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