Victoria String Quartet

Ben Holland and David Greed – violins
Kimi Makino – Viola
Adrian Bradbury – Cello

http://www.victoriastringquartet.co.uk

Shostakovich Quartet No 4 in D major op 83  (50th anniversary of his death)
Puccini Crisantemi
Simon Parkin S8G80
Ravel String Quartet in F major (150th anniversary of his birth)

In demand since its formation in 2017, the Victoria String Quartet has gone on to perform for chamber music societies and festivals throughout the UK and has been hailed as an ensemble ‘brim full with pedigree and wide experience’ (Buxton International Festival), performing at venues including Kendal (Lake District Summer Music), Pinner and Buxton Festivals, London, Manchester (Bridgewater, RNCM and Stoller halls), north Norfolk, north and west Wales and the Scottish Borders.

In addition to gathering return invitations to chamber music societies and festivals, the Victorias are curating a programme of creative projects: a collection of short chamber works about (and by) Sir John Manduell (Divine Arts), a recording of the Weber, Cooke and Brahms clarinet quintets, and a CD of string chamber music by Richard Pantcheff (2024 Prima Facie), with BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney. A 2024 autumn residency at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders saw the Quartet performing and recording a collection of string chamber works by Scottish composer Helen Leach. Enthusiasts for lost and undiscovered works, in 2022 the Quartet gave the first public performances of Elgar’s Six Fragments for String Quartet and are looking forward to recording them this year.

Since its inception, the Quartet has also enjoyed sharing the concert platform with eminent colleagues such as the quartet, Quatuor Danel, Peter Hewitt and Irina Andrievsky (piano), Leo Popplewell (cello), Richard Simpson (oboe) and John Bradbury, (Clarinet) and working with students.