String Quartet MENTORS
Project String Quartet is delighted to be working with the internationally renowned Carducci Quartet to provide top quality mentorship to PSQ Young Professional Quartets.
What does the PSQ mentoring Programme involve?
Individual coaching with the Carducci Quartet.
Group coaching alongside other Young Professional Quartets.
Performance sessions, playing to the other Young Professional Quartets and the Carducci Quartet.
Career discussion and guidance sessions.
The chance to perform alongside the Carducci Quartet in a public performance.
“The Carducci Quartet are delighted to be taking on a mentoring role with the young professional Quartets. They will be gathering together some of the groups for intensive individual and group coaching, performances and discussions.
The quartet will happily provide career advice and a sounding board for any ideas that the groups have going forward, such as setting up their own Festival or developing their educational work. There is also the potential for a string quartet to collaborate with the Carducci Quartet, as part of The Carducci Music Trust’s annual Festival at Highnam.”
CARDUCCI QUARTET
An internationally renowned Anglo-Irish string quartet based in the UK, the versatile and award-winning Carducci String Quartet has performed everything from brand new quartets, classic works by Haydn, complete Shostakovich cycles, and even partnered with folk-rock icon Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. Founded in 1997, the ensemble has won numerous international competitions, including Concert Artists Guild International Competition USA 2007 and First Prize at Finland’s Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition 2004.