Thursday, September 21, 2006
Summer Autumn Winter 2006
SUMMER 2006
After a great summer, which included a trip to Geneva for the Festival de Bellerive run by Lesley de Senger Takacs and then into France for the St. Agreve Festival, situated two hours up a winding mountain road, we came down to earth with a bang when we realised that, due to the security problems, we could not take our instruments into the UK if we wanted to take them out again.
Our good friend, Simon Majaro, came to our rescue with his quartet of wonderful instruments, which we first played at the Wigmore Hall in 1999. For the next two visits, the fact that we were playing on these instruments gave a greater spice to the concerts and the audience were intrigued.
A concert tour in Sweden in September was the result of a Swedish promoter hearing us in Prague and then being entertained in the late evening by Jiri (our viola) and his gipsy friends in the Herak Ensemble. Our two groups travelled 2000 kilometres together around Sweden, playing the same mix of concerts every evening. A really novel and exciting project!
AUTUMN 2006
In early November, we will be in Trinity College of Music and Blackheath Halls, taking part in a variety of activities as follows:
Trinity College of Music Master classes 3.11.06 5 –9 pm
Junior Trinity Master classes 4.11.06 10 am – 1pm
Blackheath Halls Coffee Concert 5 11.06 11 am
Mozart K428, Beethoven op95 and Ravel
020 8463 0100 8-22s £5 (sponsored by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust)
Blackheath Halls School concert 6.11.06 2 pm
Blackheath /Carducci Q. Master Classes 7.11.06 10 am & 2 pm
The Carducci Quartet are now the holders of the Bulldog Scholarship at Trinity
(All these activities are open to the public with the exception of the School concert.)
WINTER 2006
Back in the UK at the end of November, for a visit to Dillington Hall on the 25th, Conway Hall on the 26th (Dvorak’s Piano Quartet with Libor Novacek) and Kendal on the 29th.
On the 17th December, in a Coffee concert at the Wigmore Hall, we will be playing for the first time in the UK another of Dvorak’s really great quartets, op 105. (Tickets on Sale NOW 020 7935 2141)
For those of you who love Dvorak, we would recommend you to get to know all his quartets but especially Op 34, Op.51 (Slavonic), Op. 61, Op. 96 (American), Opp. 105 and 106. Of course to these we must add Dvorak’s Viola Quintet Op. 97 and the Piano Quintet Op. 81.
We have recordings of opp. 51/106 and of opp. 96/61 and also of the Viola Quintet and Piano Quintet. (See Discography). Hopefully we will get sponsorship to produce a CD of opp 34/105 soon.
Watch this space or the Concert Diary for the Feb/March Tour in the UK with Martin Kasik (piano)
After a great summer, which included a trip to Geneva for the Festival de Bellerive run by Lesley de Senger Takacs and then into France for the St. Agreve Festival, situated two hours up a winding mountain road, we came down to earth with a bang when we realised that, due to the security problems, we could not take our instruments into the UK if we wanted to take them out again.
Our good friend, Simon Majaro, came to our rescue with his quartet of wonderful instruments, which we first played at the Wigmore Hall in 1999. For the next two visits, the fact that we were playing on these instruments gave a greater spice to the concerts and the audience were intrigued.
A concert tour in Sweden in September was the result of a Swedish promoter hearing us in Prague and then being entertained in the late evening by Jiri (our viola) and his gipsy friends in the Herak Ensemble. Our two groups travelled 2000 kilometres together around Sweden, playing the same mix of concerts every evening. A really novel and exciting project!
AUTUMN 2006
In early November, we will be in Trinity College of Music and Blackheath Halls, taking part in a variety of activities as follows:
Trinity College of Music Master classes 3.11.06 5 –9 pm
Junior Trinity Master classes 4.11.06 10 am – 1pm
Blackheath Halls Coffee Concert 5 11.06 11 am
Mozart K428, Beethoven op95 and Ravel
020 8463 0100 8-22s £5 (sponsored by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust)
Blackheath Halls School concert 6.11.06 2 pm
Blackheath /Carducci Q. Master Classes 7.11.06 10 am & 2 pm
The Carducci Quartet are now the holders of the Bulldog Scholarship at Trinity
(All these activities are open to the public with the exception of the School concert.)
WINTER 2006
Back in the UK at the end of November, for a visit to Dillington Hall on the 25th, Conway Hall on the 26th (Dvorak’s Piano Quartet with Libor Novacek) and Kendal on the 29th.
On the 17th December, in a Coffee concert at the Wigmore Hall, we will be playing for the first time in the UK another of Dvorak’s really great quartets, op 105. (Tickets on Sale NOW 020 7935 2141)
For those of you who love Dvorak, we would recommend you to get to know all his quartets but especially Op 34, Op.51 (Slavonic), Op. 61, Op. 96 (American), Opp. 105 and 106. Of course to these we must add Dvorak’s Viola Quintet Op. 97 and the Piano Quintet Op. 81.
We have recordings of opp. 51/106 and of opp. 96/61 and also of the Viola Quintet and Piano Quintet. (See Discography). Hopefully we will get sponsorship to produce a CD of opp 34/105 soon.
Watch this space or the Concert Diary for the Feb/March Tour in the UK with Martin Kasik (piano)
Wihan Quartet, summer autumn winter 2006
SUMMER 2006
After a great summer, which included a trip to Geneva for the Festival de Bellerive run by Lesley de Senger Takacs and then into France for the St. Agreve Festival, situated two hours up a winding mountain road, we came down to earth with a bang when we realised that, due to the security problems, we could not take our instruments into the UK if we wanted to take them out again.
Our good friend, Simon Majaro, came to our rescue with his quartet of wonderful instruments, which we first played at the Wigmore Hall in 1999. For the next two visits, the fact that we were playing on these instruments gave a greater spice to the concerts and the audience were intrigued.
A concert tour in Sweden in September was the result of a Swedish promoter hearing us in Prague and then being entertained in the late evening by Jiri (our viola) and his gipsy friends in the Herak Ensemble. Our two groups travelled 2000 kilometres together around Sweden, playing the same mix of concerts every evening. A really novel and exciting project!
AUTUMN 2006
In early November, we will be in Trinity College of Music and Blackheath Halls, taking part in a variety of activities as follows:
Trinity College of Music Master classes 3.11.06 5 –9 pm
Junior Trinity Master classes 4.11.06 10 am – 1pm
Blackheath Halls Coffee Concert 5 11.06 11 am
Mozart K428, Beethoven op95 and Ravel
020 8463 0100 8-22s £5 (sponsored by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust)
Blackheath Halls School concert 6.11.06 2 pm
Blackheath /Carducci Q. Master Classes 7.11.06 10 am & 2 pm
The Carducci Quartet are now the holders of the Bulldog Scholarship at Trinity
(All these activities are open to the public with the exception of the School concert.)
WINTER 2006
Back in the UK at the end of November, for a visit to Dillington Hall on the 25th, Conway Hall on the 26th (Dvorak’s Piano Quartet with Libor Novacek) and Kendal on the 29th.
On the 17th December, in a Coffee concert at the Wigmore Hall, we will be playing for the first time in the UK another of Dvorak’s really great quartets, op 105. (Tickets on Sale NOW 020 7935 2141)
For those of you who love Dvorak, we would recommend you to get to know all his quartets but especially Op 34, Op.51 (Slavonic), Op. 61, Op. 96 (American), Opp. 105 and 106. Of course to these we must add Dvorak’s Viola Quintet Op. 97 and the Piano Quintet Op. 81.
We have recordings of opp. 51/106 and of opp. 96/61 and also of the Viola Quintet and Piano Quintet. (See Discography). Hopefully we will get sponsorship to produce a CD of opp 34/105 soon.
Watch this space or the Concert Diary for the Feb/March Tour in the UK with Martin Kasik (piano)
After a great summer, which included a trip to Geneva for the Festival de Bellerive run by Lesley de Senger Takacs and then into France for the St. Agreve Festival, situated two hours up a winding mountain road, we came down to earth with a bang when we realised that, due to the security problems, we could not take our instruments into the UK if we wanted to take them out again.
Our good friend, Simon Majaro, came to our rescue with his quartet of wonderful instruments, which we first played at the Wigmore Hall in 1999. For the next two visits, the fact that we were playing on these instruments gave a greater spice to the concerts and the audience were intrigued.
A concert tour in Sweden in September was the result of a Swedish promoter hearing us in Prague and then being entertained in the late evening by Jiri (our viola) and his gipsy friends in the Herak Ensemble. Our two groups travelled 2000 kilometres together around Sweden, playing the same mix of concerts every evening. A really novel and exciting project!
AUTUMN 2006
In early November, we will be in Trinity College of Music and Blackheath Halls, taking part in a variety of activities as follows:
Trinity College of Music Master classes 3.11.06 5 –9 pm
Junior Trinity Master classes 4.11.06 10 am – 1pm
Blackheath Halls Coffee Concert 5 11.06 11 am
Mozart K428, Beethoven op95 and Ravel
020 8463 0100 8-22s £5 (sponsored by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust)
Blackheath Halls School concert 6.11.06 2 pm
Blackheath /Carducci Q. Master Classes 7.11.06 10 am & 2 pm
The Carducci Quartet are now the holders of the Bulldog Scholarship at Trinity
(All these activities are open to the public with the exception of the School concert.)
WINTER 2006
Back in the UK at the end of November, for a visit to Dillington Hall on the 25th, Conway Hall on the 26th (Dvorak’s Piano Quartet with Libor Novacek) and Kendal on the 29th.
On the 17th December, in a Coffee concert at the Wigmore Hall, we will be playing for the first time in the UK another of Dvorak’s really great quartets, op 105. (Tickets on Sale NOW 020 7935 2141)
For those of you who love Dvorak, we would recommend you to get to know all his quartets but especially Op 34, Op.51 (Slavonic), Op. 61, Op. 96 (American), Opp. 105 and 106. Of course to these we must add Dvorak’s Viola Quintet Op. 97 and the Piano Quintet Op. 81.
We have recordings of opp. 51/106 and of opp. 96/61 and also of the Viola Quintet and Piano Quintet. (See Discography). Hopefully we will get sponsorship to produce a CD of opp 34/105 soon.
Watch this space or the Concert Diary for the Feb/March Tour in the UK with Martin Kasik (piano)
