String Quartets UK

String Quartet - Sacconi
Covering; London, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire,
Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
& most other areas of the UK.

Formed in 2001 at the Royal College of Music, the Sacconi String Quartet is rapidly gaining an enviable reputation as one of the outstanding quartets of their generation.  Last year the Quartet won 2^nd Prize at the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition, along with the Esterhazy Prize & Sydney Griller Award, following their 1^st Prize win in the 2005 Trondheim International String Quartet Competition.  They also won the Kurtag Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, 1^st Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League chamber music competition and were shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society award.   

In May 2006 the Quartet was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT), and in August 2006 was awarded an Angel Award by The Herald newspaper for outstanding performances in the Edinburgh Festival.

Engagements last season included return visits to Wigmore Hall, concerts at Cadogan Hall, St. George’s Bristol, the Canterbury, Bangor New Music, Bury St. Edmunds, Winchester, Gregynog and Lincoln Mozart Festivals.  Abroad the Quartet has appeared at the St. Olav Festival in Trondheim, Norway and given recitals in Geneva, Barcelona and France.  They have collaborated with the Chilingirian Quartet, Wihan Quartet, Gary Matthewman, David Campbell, Morgan Szymanski, Tim Boulton, Lawrence Power and Raphael Wallfisch in quintet, sextet and octet concerts.

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