YOung Professional QUARTETS
Project String Quartet’s Young Professional Quartets work with International Artists to create a range of exciting projects tailor-made for schools.
Young Professional Quartets will bring their expertise as a chamber ensemble to engage and inspire students, as well as gain invaluable experience in developing their own educational experience. Now PSQ String Quartet Mentors, the Carducci Quartet were involved in a previous residency created by PSQ founder Graham Oppenheimer, saying:
“Our time as Quartet in Residence at Repton School was incredibly fruitful for us a quartet. We worked with both the junior and senior school string players, giving masterclasses, working with the composition students as well as introducing the string quartet to those pupils who had never seen or heard one live before. Our repeat visits allowed us to build up great rapport with the students and the Strings Days saw us working with schools from the local area. It enabled us to develop our educational work and gave us valuable performance opportunities at a critical stage of our career.”
Amarins Wierdsma | James Dong | Christoph Slenczka | Yoanna Prodanova
Barbican Quartet
The London based Barbican String Quartet is an exciting young ensemble quickly establishing themselves internationally. Claimed for their “gusto, comradeship and sharp attack” (The Times) and “blazing and unusually forthright performance” (The Telegraph) the quartet was formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and it consists of violinists Amarins Wierdsma and James Dong, violist Christoph Slenczka and cellist Yoanna Prodanova.
Alkyona Quartet
The Alkyona Quartet present fresh imaginative interpretations of both well-known and hidden gems of the string quartet repertoire. They are Tunnell Trust Award Holders 2020/21, Making Music Selected Artists 2020-2021 and Musicians in Residence at Leighton House Museum, and released their debut album ‘Intimate Letters’ in collaboration with Cegin Productions in 2020. They are well known for their warm connection to audiences and vivacious performances, and are ‘as vibrant and memorable as their ‘Kingfisher’ namesake’.
Emma Purslow | Marike Kruup | | Jobine Siekman
Agata Daraškaite | Magdalena Loth-Hill | Elitsa Bogdanova | George Ross
Consone Quartet
The first period instrument quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of classical and early romantic repertoire. Their debut CD was met with great critical acclaim as an album “that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special” (The Strad, 2019). Winners of the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the Consone have performed at a number of prestigious venues and festivals around the UK, Europe and South America.
Kyan Quartet
Established in 2019 at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Kyan Quartet brings together four exceptional young musicians from Belgium, the US, Scotland and France. The Kyan Quartet were awarded 1st place in the 2021 RAM Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Competition, praised for their ‘terrific, passionate, and inspiring performance’. They are current beneficiares of the RAM Frost Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training scheme, through which they are mentored by Alex Redington of the Doric String Quartet, and have recently been invited to take part in a chamber residency at Snape Maltings in 2022 through the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme.
Michelle Dierx | Sydney Grace Mariano | Rachel Spence | Simon Guémy