International artists
Experts in their field for chamber music, renowned International Artists are involved with Project String Quartet to create high quality concert performances, workshops and masterclasses in schools across the UK. School projects with the International Artists include formal evening concerts, masterclasses and teaching to create an engaging and interactive environment for students to learn and experience a wide range of music through live chamber music performance.
PSQ International Artists will also mentor Young Professional Quartets to prepare them for careers in the music industry, performing alongside them in school visits in a wide range of chamber quintet performances and presentations.
Martin Roscoe
Piano
With an extraordinary career spanning over five decades, Martin Roscoe is unarguably one of the UK’s best loved pianists. Having made over 500 broadcasts, including seven BBC Prom appearances, he is one of the most regularly played pianists on BBC Radio Three.
PSQ Repertoire
Brahms - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Elgar - Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
Schumann - Piano Quintet in E-flat major, op. 44
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Violin
Tamsin Waley-Cohen enjoys an adventurous and varied career, and is a founding member of the Albion string quartet. She has performed in concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia and BBC orchestras, amongst others.
PSQ Repertoire
Mendelssohn - Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (with two string quartets)
Robert Cohen
Cello
Hailed as one of the foremost cellists of our time, Robert is an award-winning solo cellist, recording artist, conductor, chamber musician and educator and has played concertos worldwide for forty years. He teaches, lectures and gives masterclasses internationally and was cellist of the legendary Fine Arts Quartet 2011-2018.
PSQ Repertoire
Schubert - Cello Quintet in C Major, D.596
Haydn - Cello Concerto (with two string quartets)
Leon Bosch
Double Bass
Leon Bosch has an honoured place among the select group of virtuoso double bass players worldwide. He spent twenty years as principal double bass with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and devotes his musical career to performing and recording as a soloist, setting up his chamber ensemble I Musicanti and teaching in the UK and internationally.
PSQ Repertoire
Dvořák - Double Bass Quintet, Op. 77
GRAHAM OPPENHEIMER
VIOLA
Graham Oppenheimer is a highly trained chamber music teacher and one of the UK’s foremost and most respected violists. He has appeared as guest violist with leading quartets, including Vermeer, Lindsay, Pacifica, Vogler, Vanbrugh, Carducci, St Lawrence, Australian and Petersen, and with piano trios including the Busch, Hochelaga and Cropper/Welsh/Roscoe.
PSQ Repertoire
Brahms - String Quintet No 2 in G major, Op 111
Dvořák - String Quintet in E-flat major, Op 97
Mendelssohn - String Quintet No.2, Op.87
Mozart - String Quintet No.4 in G minor, K.516
RICHARD HOSFORD
CLARINET
Both as a soloist and as chamber musician, Richard Hosford is one of Britain's outstanding clarinettists. He has a busy career both as a soloist and as chamber musician, as well as being Principal Clarinet with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and member of the world renowned Nash Ensemble.
PSQ Repertoire
Brahms - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Mozart - Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581
STEPHEN STIRLING
HORN
Stephen Stirling is a renowned soloist and chamber musician. His discography includes over 80 works including a nomination for a Gramophone award. His set of Mozart Horn Concertos has been broadcast many times by Classic FM. He is the principal horn and frequent soloist with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra of St John’s.
PSQ Repertoire
Mozart - Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407
Marie Leenhardt
Harp
French born harpist Marie Leenhardt is one of the leading harpists in the UK and has been Principal Harp of the Halle Orchestra for over 20 years. She has played all the major harp concertos with the orchestra and worked with many leading conductors including Mark Elder and Bernard Haitink. She teaches harp at Chetham’s School of Music.
PSQ Repertoire
Caplet - Conte Fantastique
Debussy - Dances Sacree et Profane for harp and string quartet
Selection of harp solos
Alexandra Whittingham
Guitar
Alexandra Whittingham has been recognised by Classic FM as ‘a young artist with huge potential to shape the classical world’. She has gained over 185,000 subscribers on YouTube during the last four years, where videos of her performances of popular classical guitar repertoire have collectively surpassed 26 million views.
PSQ Repertoire
Bocherinni - ‘Fandango‘ Quintet in D Major, G448
Selection of guitar solos