With Adrien La Marca, Viola and Christian-Pierre La Marca, Cello

With Olivier Patey, Clarinet and Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky

The Feldman Chamber Music Society

The Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg

Harvard Musical Association

The Jeffrey Concerts

Chamber Music in Oklahoma

The quartet has been artist-in-residence at The University of Manchester since 2005, and performs a programme of lunchtime and evening concerts at the Martin Harris Centre throughout the year.

Prima la musica

“The ensemble positions Weinberg’s spare Fifth quartet (1945) and his busy, nervous Sixth (1946) on either side of his friend’s satirical Sixth (1956).”

Zaubersee Festival 2020 – 9th Festival of Russian chamber music in Lucerne

Festival Fougères Musicales

Les Concerts de l’Amitié

Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage

Two quartets by each composer, in each instance their seventh and eighth examples. Both adopting elements of the klezmer tradition, Weinberg’s date from 1957 and 1958 respectively, while the Shostakovich pair were written in 1960 – the highly personal Eighth within a period of three days.

For two frenetic weeks in July, Kuhmo in Eastern Finland is host to a chamber music festival attracting thousands of music lovers. In that fortnight, this town of 8,300 inhabitants echoes to the sound of music against a backcloth of a lake that almost laps the walls of the concert halls in the clear, unbelievable northern light.

“Aux abords de la Loire, entre les châteaux de Talcy et de Blois, le festival franco-russe la Clé des Portes imaginé par Arthur Ancelle et Ludmila Berlinskaïa est d’abord un état d’esprit. Un état d’esprit où règne la fantaisie des artistes invités, qui nous emmènent en voyage. La Clé des Portes est unique en son genre car elle ouvre toutes les places fortes, y compris celles de l’imaginaire.”