We are delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration, which will see the Quartet recognising the college as it’s official ‘home’.
A concert will be given on Monday 25 March at 7pm to launch the residency, with a programme entitled ‘Fairytale’. This special event will celebrate the oral tradition with an intimate concert to include Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet, as well as music by Stravinsky, Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Hensel.
Dr Rachel Stroud, on behalf of the quartet reflected: ‘The Cambridge String Quartet are delighted and honoured to be starting a residency at Hughes Hall. We’re excited by this new chapter in our development as an ensemble, and look forward to getting to know the College community and to the inspiring collaborations that we hope will emerge’.
Cambridge String Quartet: from left, Stephane Crayton (Violin I); Rachel Stroud (Violin II); Sam Kennedy (Viola); Joshua Lynch (cello).
‘Our founding vision is to bring together a group of outstanding musicians, academics and artistic directors through a shared commitment to celebrate the community that first brought them together. From curating a series of online talks and performances during the pandemic, to its experimental ‘Notes of Beethoven’ event, and from a salon series celebrating female composers, to a performance curated around George Bridgetower (the original dedicatee of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata) with newly-discovered music at Trinity Hall, the Quartet always tries to stay true to its founding principles: that it is the audience that shapes and guides the performance.
We look forward to meeting many members of the Hughes Hall community at our forthcoming concert on 25 March’ (click here for details).
Dr Nigel Yandell, Hughes Hall Director of Music, welcomed the Quartet: “I have personally very much enjoyed collaborating with members of the quartet…and am confident that their involvement in college musical life will be rewarding for all.”
Hughes Hall Director of Music, Nigel Yandell, added ‘We are delighted to welcome The Cambridge String Quartet as the college’s first Ensemble in Residence. I have personally very much enjoyed collaborating with members of the quartet on various projects over the past few years and am confident that their involvement in college musical life will be rewarding for all. The quartet’s local connections are very strong (all its members have either studied or lived in our city) and there is natural alignment between the quartet’s vision and the college’s ethos. We look forward to welcoming the quartet into our community, helping them build a dialogue with students, and integrating their music-making into our programme of musical activities throughout the academic year’.
A dedicated webpage for The Cambridge String Quartet will appear on the college’s website shortly, but in the meantime, more information about the Quartet can be found here.
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