Saturday 3rd May at7.30pm
United Reformed Church, Parkgate Road. Tickets at £16 including refreshments

In demand since its formation in 2017, the Victoria String Quartet has performed  chamber music  throughout the UK and has been hailed as an ensemble ‘brim full with pedigree and wide experience’ (Buxton International Festival), with concerts 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 Victoria has curated an ongoing 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 with BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney  (2024 Prima Facie). Recently a residency at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders saw the Quartet perform and record a collection of string chamber works by Scottish composer Helen Leach (2024 Divine Arts), which has enjoyed great success on BBC Radio 3. 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 in 2025.  

Programme: Haydn, op 1 no 1, “La Chasse”, Ravel String Quartet and Shostakovich Quartet no 4, op. 83.

Ben Holland and David Greed (violins) Kimi Makino (viola) Adrian Bradbury (‘cello)

Programme photo courtesy Rino Pucci

Tickets from Parkgate Society Website, Blue Bicycle, Neston and TicketSource