Thursday 7th December 2017 at 7.30pm

Graham Fitkin Album Launch

Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

with Graham Fitkin

Fitkin: Inside
Fitkin: Furniture
Glass: String Quartet No. 2
Fitkin: Bookcase
Pärt: Summa
Fitkin: String
Fitkin: Servant

All details can be found at the Kings Place website.

Friday 1st December 2017 at 8.00pm

BMS York

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD

Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 55 No. 2 ('Razor')
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden

All details can be found at the BMS York website.

Friday 24th November 2017 at 7.30pm

Royal College of Music

CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES

Monday 20th -Wednesday 22nd November 2017

Kirker Chamber Music in Alfriston

Deans Place Hotel, Alfriston, Sussex, BN26 5TW

20th November 19.30 hrs:

Suk: Meditation
Haydn: String Quartet Op.55 No.2 in F minor “Razor”
Schubert: String Quartet in G D 887

21st November 18.30 hrs:

with Simon Rowland-Jones, (viola)

Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D810 “Death and the Maiden”
Dvorak: String Quintet in E flat Op.97

22nd November 18.30 hrs:

with Moray Welsh, cello

Schubert: Quartettsatz D703
Shostakovich: String Quartet in C minor No.8
Schubert: String Quintet in C D956

All information at the Kirker Holidays website.

Sunday 12th November 2017 at 7.30pm

Wimbledon International Music Festival

Trinity Church, Mansel Road, London, SW19 4AA

with the Wihan Quartet

Shostakovich: ‘Prelude’ and ‘Scherzo’, Op.11
Enescu: String Octet, Op.11
Mendelssohn: Octet, Op.20

All information at the Wimbledon International Music Festival website.

Friday 3rd November 2017 at 8.00pm

Abbotsholme Arts Society

Abbotsholme School, Rocester, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire ST14 5BS

with the Wihan Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in G major, K.387
Dvorak: String Quartet in F major  Op.96 'American'
Mendelssohn: Octet

All information at the Abbotsholme Arts Society website.

Thursday 2nd November 2017 at 7.30pm

Nottingham Lakeside Arts

Djanogly Recital Hall, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

with the Wihan Quartet

Shostakovich: Two piece for String Octet, Op.11
Enescu: String Octet, Op.7
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat, Op.20

All details can be found at the Nottingham Lakeside Arts website.

Sunday 29th October 2017 at 6.30pm

Conway Hall

Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

Haydn: String Quartet in E major Op. 54 No. 3
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”
Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major Op. 106

All details can be found at the Conway Hall website.

Sunday 8th October 2017 at 6.30pm

London Chamber Music Society

Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

Mozart: String Quartet in G, K387
Jonathan Dove: String Quartet Out of Time (2001)
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D810 Death and the Maiden

All details can be found at the London Chamber Music Society website.

Saturday 30th September 2017 at 7.30pm

Whitstable Music Society

St John's Methodist Church, 1 Argyle Road, CT5 1JS

with Charles Owen (piano)

Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No.3
Dove: Piano Quintet
Dvorak: Piano Quintet No.2 Op.81

All details can be found at the Whitstable Music Society website.

Sunday 24th September 2017 at 3.30pm

Autumn In Malvern Festival

Great Malvern Priory, Church Street, Great Malvern, WR14 2AY

with Mark Padmore (tenor) and Freddie Brown (piano)

Finzi: A Young Man's Exhortation
Alec Roth: A Song Cycle on poems by Edward Thomas for Tenor & String Quartet (World Premiere - Festival Commission)
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge for Tenor String Quartet & Piano

All details can be found at the Autumn In Malvern Festival website.

Saturday 23rd September 2017 at 7.30pm

Sevenoaks Music Club

Walthamstow Hall, Holly Bush Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3UL

Haydn: Quartet in C, Op.76, No.3 Emperor
Mozart: Quartet No.14 in G, K.387 Spring
Dvořák: Quartet No. 13 in G, Op.106

All details can be found at the Sevenoaks Music Club website.

Saturday 29th July 2017 at 11.00am

Three Choirs Festival

Worcester Baptist Church, Sansome Walk, WR1 1LN

Suk: Meditation on Chorale ‘St Wenceslas’
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 131

All details can be found at the Three Choirs Festival website.

Friday 28th July 2017 at 7.30pm

The Barn, Carlton

The Barn, Carlton, Bedfordshire, MK43 7ND

Haydn: Quartet 76 in D
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131

All details can be found at the The Barn, Carlton website.

Wednesday 26th July 2017 at 8.00pm

Musicfest Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DE

with the Orion Orchestra, Toby Purser (conductor), Guy Johnston (cello) and Jamie Campbell (violin)

Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro Op 47*
Brahms: Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor Op 102

All details can be found at the Musicfest Aberystwyth website.

Tuesday 25th July 2017 at 8.00pm

Musicfest Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DE

with the Solem Quartet and Tom Poster (piano)

Haydn: String Quartet Op 76 No 5
Dvorak: Piano Quintet Op 81
Mendelssohn: Octet Op 20

All details can be found at the Musicfest Aberystwyth website.

Friday 14th July 2017 at 7.30pm

Budleigh Music Festival

Temple Methodist Church, Fore Street, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, EX9 6NG

with Huw Watkins (piano)

Mozart: String Quartet in G, K.387
Huw Watkins: String Quartet
Dvořák: Piano Quintet No.2 op.81

All information at the Budleigh Music Festival website.

Sunday 9th July 2017 at 3.00pm

BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: The Blitz

Middleton Hall, University College Hull, Cottingham Rd, Hull, HU6 7RX

with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Ireland: songs TBC
Gurney: songs TBC
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

All details can be found at the Hull Box Office.

Saturday 8th July 2017 at 6.00pm

BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: The North Sea

Middleton Hall, University College Hull, Cottingham Rd, Hull, HU6 7RX

with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Graham Mitchell (double bass)

Faure: L'Horizon Chimerique
Schubert: Die Forelle, D.550
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D.667 “Trout”

All details can be found at the Hull Box Office.

Saturday 8th July 2017 at 3.00pm

BBC Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend: Wilberforce

Middleton Hall, University College Hull, Cottingham Rd, Hull, HU6 7RX

with James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano), Andrew Berridge (viola)

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: String quartet No.6 (1st mvt)
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: songs tbc
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major, Op.29 “Storm”

All details can be found at the Hull Box Office.

Thursday 29th June 2017 at 6.15pm

Royal College of Music

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS

Haydn: String Quartet in D major op 76 no 5
Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn 'St Wenceslas'
Shostakovich: String Quartet no 8 in C minor op 110

All details can be found at the Royal College of Music website.

Monday 29th May 2017 at 8.00pm

Prague Spring Festival

Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, náměstí Jana Palacha 1, 11001 Prague 1, Czech Republic

with the Wihan Quartet

Mendelssohn: String Octet in E flat major Op. 20
Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet Op. 11
Enescu: String Octet in C major Op. 7

All details can be found at the Prague Spring Festival website.

Sunday 21st May 2017 at 7.00pm

Sacconi Festival

St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone

with Alasdair Beatson (piano)

Mozart: String Quartet in G major, k.387, ‘Spring’
Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 97, ‘Archduke’
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 (Friends’ choice)

Our finale concert brings to a close our 10TH Festival! Alasdair Beatson joins the Sacconis in Beethoven’s beautiful Archduke Piano Trio and again for Dvorak’s piano quintet masterpiece, chosen by our very own Sacconi Friends. 

All details at the Festival page.

Sunday 21st May 2017 at 3.00pm

Sacconi Festival

St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone

with Alasdair Beatson (piano) and Leon Bosch (bass)

Satie: Embryons desséchés
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, ‘The Trout’  

We welcome back to the Festival the extraordinary pianist Alasdair Beatson for this afternoon concert. He will perform Eric Satie’s Embryons Desséchés, a suite of three short pieces inspired, aptly for this coastal venue, by sea creatures. Carrying on the aqueous theme, Alasdair is joined by members of the Sacconi Quartet in a performance of another seminal piece by Schubert: The ‘Trout’ quintet.

All details at the Festival page.

Saturday 20th May 2017 at 9.30pm

Sacconi Festival

with Lavinia Meijer (harp)

G. C. Menotti: Cantilena & Scherzo for harp and string quartet
Paul Patterson: Armistice: Reflection & Hope, Op. 108
written for Lavinia Meijer
Philip Glass: Etudes 16 and 17 (arr. for harp by L. Meijer)
Philip Glass: The Hours (arr. for harp and string quartet by L. Meijer)
Bryce Dessner: Suite for Harp 
L. Einaudi: Divenire (arr. for harp & string quartet by L. Meijer)

We are delighted to have harpist Lavinia Meijer over from the Netherlands to perform in her unique musical style. Having worked closely and performed with Philip Glass, and produced two CDs of his music arranged for harp, Lavinia is an expert interpreter of his work. She will also be performing a piece written for her by Paul Patterson, a great friend of the Sacconis and one of the foremost contemporary composers for the harp. 

All details at the Festival page.

Saturday 20th May 2017 at 7.00pm

Sacconi Festival

St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone

with the Wihan Quartet

Enescu: Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7
Shostakovich: Two pieces for String Octet
Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat major, Op. 20

The Sacconis are joined, for this special octet concert, by the wonderful Wihan Quartet from the Czech Republic. The Sacconis were introduced to the Wihans by Simon and Pamela Majaro of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. The original members of the Wihan played an important role in the Sacconis’ early career, providing intensive and formative coaching on the core Czech repertoire. We would like to dedicate this concert to Pamela Majaro MBE who sadly passed away last year.

All details at the Festival page.

Friday 19th May 2017 at 7.00pm

Sacconi Festival

St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone

Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No.5
Glass: String Quartet No.2
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’
SACCONI ENCORE: a selection of the Sacconi Quartet’s favourite movements from the chamber music repertoire. 

Our opening concert includes a tribute to Philip Glass in his 80th year and one of the Sacconis’ all-time favourite quartets: Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

The Sacconis will also be choosing a favourite quartet movement each, to talk about and perform. This is an extended concert with two intervals

All details at the Festival page.

Saturday 13th May 2017 at 8.00pm

Music at St Peter’s

St Peter’s Church, 1 Thames Street, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 0BH

with Andrew Berridge (viola)

Haydn: Quartet in D major Op.76 no.5
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major, Op.29
Schubert: Quartet in D minor D810 Death and the Maiden

All details can be found at Music at St Peter's website. Tickets can be bought at Ticketsource.

Monday 8th May 2017 at 7.30pm

Newbury Spring Festival

Highclere Castle, Highclere Park, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 9RN

with Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 No. 5 in D
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K.581
Simpson: Darkness Moves
Schubert: String Quartet No. 4 'Death and the Maiden'

All details at the Newbury Spring Festival site.

Thursday 4th May 2017 at 7.30pm

Birmingham University

The Bramall, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn ‘St Wenceslas’, Op. 35a
Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, ‘Death and the Maiden’

All details can be found at The Bramall website.

Wednesday 12th April 2017 at 8.00pm

Ilkley Concert Club

The King's Hall and Winter Gardens, Station Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8HB

with Robert Plane (clarinet)

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581      
Bowen: Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet,  Op.93            
Haydn: String Quartet Op.76, No.1

All information at the Ilkley Concert Club website.

Saturday 8th April 2017

Naunton Music

St Andrew's Church, Naunton, Gloucestershire, GL54 3AX

Haydn: Seven Last Words of Christ

Further details from info@NauntonMusic.org.uk

Saturday 18th March 2017 at 7.30pm

Music at St Peter’s

St. Peter's Methodist Church, St Peter's Grove, Canterbury CT1 2BE

Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op.76 no.2, 'Fifths'
Mozart: String Quartet in G, K387
Glass: String Quartet No.2, ‘Company’
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor Op. posth. 80

All details can be found at the Music at St Peter’s website.

Monday 13th -Thursday 16th March 2017

Kirker Music Festival

Hotel Tresanton, 27 Lower Castle Rd, St Mawes, Truro, TR2 5DR

with Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)

Monday

Glass: String Quartet No. 2
Haydn: String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 'Fifths'
Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131

Tuesday

Sibelius: Moderato and Allegro Appassionato
Rowland-Jones: String Quintet No. 2 'Trouvaille'
Beethoven: String Quintet in C Op. 29

Wednesday

Bridge: Lament for Two Violas
Suk: Meditation on the old Czech hymns 'St. Wenceslas'
Dvorak: String Quartet in F Op. 96 'American'
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor K516

All details can be found at the Kirker Holidays website. Tickets for individual concerts are also available, details can be found here.

Saturday 11th March 2017 at 7.00pm

West Wight Arts

The Memorial Hall, Avenue Rd, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, PO40 9UU

with Matthew Hunt (clarinet)

Howells: Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet and string quartet, Op.31
Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387
Glazunov: Oriental Reverie for clarinet and string quartet
Weber: Clarinet Quintet in B flat Major, Op.34

All details can be found at the West Wight Arts website.

Sunday 5th March 2017 at 5.00pm

Mont-sur-Rolle

Church of Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland

Haydn: Quartet in D minor Op 76 No 2 ‘Fifths’ 
Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387
Glass: String Quartet No. 2
Mendelssohn: Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80

Free admission, collection at the end. Further details can be found here.

Saturday 4th March 2017 at 6.15pm

Festival Musique et Neige des Diablerets

Vers-l'Eglise Church, 1865 Les Diablerets, Switzerland

Glass: String Quartet No. 2
Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387
Fitkin: String
Mendelssohn: Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 

All details are available at the Festival Musique et Neige website.

Monday 20th February 2017 at 1.00pm

Royal College of Music

Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS

Glass: Quartet no 2 'Company'
Mozart: String Quartet no 14 in G major K387

All details can be found at the Royal College of Music website.

Saturday 4th February 2017 at 7.30pm

Berkhamsted Music

Berkhamsted Civic Centre, 161-163 High Street, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 3HB

Haydn: Quartet in D minor Op 76 No 2 ‘Fifths’ 
Mozart: Quartet in G major K387 ‘Spring’  
Glass: Quartet No 2 ‘Company’ 
Mendelssohn: Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 

All details at the Berkhamstead Music website.

Sunday 29th January 2017 at 2.30pm

Dillington House

Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9DT

with Charles Owen (piano)

Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387
Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn 'St Wenceslas'
Dvorak: piano quintet No. 2 in A Op 81 (with Charles Owen)

All details at the Dillington House website.

Friday 27th -Sunday 29th January 2017

Dillington House Chamber Music Weekend with Terry Barfoot

Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 9DT

with Charles Owen (piano)

Friday evening

 Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 'The Fifths'
 Mozart: String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387

Saturday morning

 Sibelius: Moderato and Allegro appassionato in C# minor
 Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn 'St Wenceslas'
 Dvorak: String Quartet No.12, Op.96 'American'

Saturday evening

 Glass: String Quartet No. 2
 Beethoven: Quartet No 14 in C-sharp minor Op 131

Sunday morning

(with Charles Owen)

 Dove: Piano Quintet
 Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Op 81

All details at the Dillington House website.

Thursday 26th January 2017 at 7.30pm

Malvern Concert Club

Forum, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3HB

with Robert Plane (clarinet)

Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1 
York Bowen: Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and strings Op. 93
Glazunov: Oriental Reverie for clarinet quintet Op. 14
Brahms:  Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115

All details can be found at the Malvern Concert Club website.