7.30pm Thursday,  9th February 2012

The Heath String Quartet
plus Carole Presland piano

The Heath String Quartet - Picture by Sussie AhlburgOliver Heath - Violin
Cerys Jones - Violin
Gary Pomeroy - Viola
Christopher Murray - Cello
Carole Presland - Piano

Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 Opus 41-3
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor Opus 34

Over the last year the Heath Quartet has won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Tromp Internacional Competition in Eindhoven and Second Prize at the Haydn International Competition in Vienna. The Quartet also gave recitals throughout the Netherlands, including their Concertgebouw debut, and appeared at Sage Gateshead (broadcast by BBC Radio 3) and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. The Heath Quartet was formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, under the guidance of Dr Christopher Rowland. During 2007-2008 they studied with Alasdair Tait at the Reina Sofia in Madrid and in autumn 2008 were appointed Leverhulme Junior Fellows at the RNCM. Future plans include recitals at Wigmore, Bridgewater, Perth and Queens Hall Edinburgh, and concerts in Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and China. In 2010 they record at the Muzickcentrum Frits Philips and undertake a two week residency at The Banff Centre in Canada.

“…A keen interpretative insight combined with refined playing, this is one of the most interesting young quartets I have heard in recent years.”
The Strad Magazine

Links:

http://www.heathquartet.com/

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