Quartet at Bideford Music Club
AWARD-WINNING Dante Quartet will perform at Bideford Music Club's Christmas concert.
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007 and the Chamber Music section of the BBC Music Magazine Awards in April 2009, the Dante Quartet was founded in 1995 at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall and chose the name Dante to reflect the idea of a great and challenging journey.
The Dante Quartet plays at major concert halls, music societies and festivals throughout the UK and has appeared at the Aldeburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Spitalfields, Hay, Brighton, Presteigne and City of London Festivals as well as at Wigmore Hall and King's Place in London. The quartet broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has also performed many times in Europe.
In 2008 the quartet made its Hyperion recording debut with a disc of Franck and Fauré quartets which attracted unanimous critical acclaim. A previous recording was shortlisted for the 2001 Gramophone awards.
The quartet has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, at Dartington and Cadenza Summer Schools and in Spain and has a special association with King's College, Cambridge. In 2004 it launched the Dante Summer Music Festival in Cornwall in the Tamar Valley.
Music being performed for the Bideford Music Club will be the Haydn string quartet in C major Op 20 No. 2, Sibelius string quartet in D minor (Voces intimae) and Smetana string quartet No. 1 in E minor (From my Life).
The Christmas concert with mince pies and punch will be held on Wednesday, 2nd December at 7.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church Westward Ho!. Membership for four concerts at reduced prices is still available.
Tickets on the door are £10.50 each but free for students. For any other information please telephone 01237 423112.
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