Orchestra or Band | Echea Quartet (Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, Rosa Hartley - violins, Dave Shaw - viola, Eliza Millett - cello) |
Set List | 'String Quartet No.3', B Bartók, 'String Quartet No.15 in A Minor, Op.132', Beethoven |
Performance Notes | Recipients of the Royal Philharmonic Societys Albert and Eugenie Frost Chamber Music Prize (2019/20) and the Hattori Foundations Senior Award (2021/22), the Echéa Quartet was formed in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music, London. They are recent winners of the Tremplin' at the Philharmonie de Paris's String Quartet Biennale (2020) and prizewinners of the International Anton Rubinstein Competition (2017). The quartet are currently Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal College of Music, artists for the Kirckman Concert Society and City Music Foundation, and they are Yeomen of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. The quartet is mentored by John Myerscough, Simon Rowland-Jones and Mathieu Herzog. They have been selected to participate in the McGill International String Quartet Academy (MISQA) in Montreal where they will study with members of the Alban Berg, Artemis and Ebene Quartets. |