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Music for Wexford present Carducci String Quartet
Carducci String Quartet
When and where
Date and time
Fri, 8 Sep 2023 20:00 - 22:00 IST
Location
Y21 WR85 St Anne's Chruch Y21 WR85 Killanne Ireland
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About this event
- 2 hours
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Shostakovich Quartet 1
Donnacha Dennehy Pushpulling
Peter Gregson Three Parallels (Irish premiere)
Beethoven Op.59 No.2
An internationally renowned Anglo-Irish string quartet based in the UK, the versatile and award-winning Carducci String Quartet has performed everything from brand new quartets, classic works by Haydn, complete Shostakovich cycles, and even partnered with folk-rock icon Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. Founded in 1997, the ensemble has won numerous international competitions, including Concert Artists Guild International Competition USA 2007 and First Prize at Finland’s Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition 2004. In 2016, they took home a Royal Philharmonic Society Award for their performances of cycles of the complete Shostakovich Quartets. This Shostakovich15 project was accompanied by a recording of quartets 4, 8 and 11 for Signum Classics, to which the quartet added a further volume in spring 2019 (1,2 and 7) acclaimed by Gramophone Magazine for its “…athletic, upfront performances, clear in texture, forthright in tone and bold in articulation.” The quartet has released a bevy of acclaimed recordings on their own label, Carducci Classics, as well as Signum Classics, and their Naxos recordings of Philip Glass Quartets have had over six million plays on Spotify.
Described by The Strad as presenting “a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose, in which severity could melt seamlessly into charm, and drama into geniality″, the Carducci Quartet is recognised as one of today’s most successful string quartets. Performing over 90 concerts worldwide each year the quartet also run an annual Carducci festival in Highnam, Gloucester and are quartet in residence at Dean Close in Cheltenham, where they teach young string players and coach chamber music.
The Carducci Quartet appear at prestigious venues across the globe including the Wigmore Hall, London; National Concert Hall, Dublin; Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen; The Frick Collection and Carnegie Hall, New York; Library of Congress and John. F Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; St Lawrence Center for the Arts, Toronto; and Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Festival residencies include Cheltenham, Ryedale, Lichfield, Presteigne, Kilkenny, Snape Proms, and West Cork.
Supported by the National String Quartet Foundation
About the organiser
Since its foundation in 1993, Music for Wexford has presented Wexford audiences with an impressive programme of chamber music concerts featuring both Irish and international musicians. The organisation has constantly worked towards providing high calibre concerts which are priced to make them available to everyone.
Each year Music for Wexford has sought to stage a series of concerts that represents an attractive, interesting and sometimes unfamiliar repertoire performed by wonderful musicians. Music for Wexford also have a particular interest in promoting young musicians and singers at the start of their careers, and this year’s series of Summer lunchtime concerts reflects that interest, with an abundance of young musicians, singers and composers forming the majority of the line up.
To learn more about Music for Wexford, visit our website www.musicforwexford.ie