Winner of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition 2019 and the Royal College of Music String Quartet Competition 2022, the Brompton Quartet is known for its engaging and dynamic performances.
Recent highlights include debuts at Wigmore Hall, appearance on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ with Lawrence Power and being selected as a Park Lane Group Artist and Making Music Artist. The Quartet has received guidance from eminent artists such as Alfred Brendel, David Waterman, Alina Ibragimova, Heinz Hollinger, and members of the Pavel Haas, London Haydn and Marmen Quartets.
The Quartet has performed at prestigious venues such as Kings Place, Conway Hall, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and have participated in festivals around the UK such as the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival and the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival. They explore a diverse range of repertoire, from the Baroque era to works of the present day, including contemporary female composers such as Roxanna Panufnik and Jessie Montgomery.
In this concert, the Brompton Quartet performs Caroline Shaw’s Plan and Elevation, a beautiful portrayal of the Gardens of Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, followed by Beethoven’s monumental Op.59 No.2 in E minor, with an intimate and tender Adagio movement which Beethoven was inspired by the night sky and thinking of the music of the spheres, according to his friend and student Carl Czerny.