Chilingirian Quartet

2007/8 Highlights


© Susan Pattie
Levon Chilingirian
        Richard Ireland
Susie Mészáros
        Philip de Groote



Those indispensable pillars of British musical life, the Chilingirian Quartet"
The Times

FOREIGN TOURING
  • Festival Pablo Casals, Prades, France /July 07
  • Santander Festival, Spain / August 07
  • Royal Dublin Society, Ireland / Nov 07
    (a chamber music weekend with Finghin Collins)
  • March Music Days, Rousse, Bulgaria / March 08
  • Carinthian Summer festival in Ossiach, Austria / Jul 08
    Sir John Tavener's quartet "Hidden Treasure" and "Akhmatova Songs" with Patricia Rosario.
  • Rheingau Musik Festival, Germany / Jul 08

  • LONDON
    In addition to their regular concerts at the Royal College of Music and London Chamber Music Society the Chilingirian return to the Wigmore Hall in March 2008 following a sell-out concert in 2007.

    FESTIVALS
    UK Festival appearances include concerts at the Guardian Hay-on-Wye Festival, Kings Lynn Festival, Lake District Summer Music and Canterbury Festival.
     
    CONTEMPORARY MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS
  • Michael Berkeley quartet & quintet at Hay-on-Wye
  • John Tavener in Austria (see under foreign touring)
  • Hugh Wood Clarinet Quintet - World Première Nov 07 / Rodewald Concert Society preceded by a concert with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic of Wood's Serenade & Elegy for Quartet & Orch

  • * HAYDN 2009 * BICENTENARY * HAYDN 2009 *
    The Chilingirian Quartet are already building towards the Haydn bicentenary in 2009 with concerts during 2008 at the Jacqueline Du Pré Building in Oxford, Hampton Court Palace at in the Rheingau Musik Festival, Germany. Details of exciting 2009 plans to follow.
    Première recordings of Michael Berkeley

  • BERKELEY, Lennox
    String Quartet No 2, Op 15
  • BERKELEY, Michael
    Abstract Mirror for String Quintet*
  • with Thomas Carroll, cello
    Magnetic Field for String Quartet*
    *Premiere recordings

    Chandos Records
    CHAN 10364
    Download at: www.chandos.net

    "a fine demonstration of the Chilingirians' exceptional panache."
    The Gramophone July 2006
    FOR RELEASE JULY 2007
    on CRD Records
    The first in a 3 CD series of the complete Mozart String Quintets with Yuko Inoue, viola

    Vol 1
    K174 in B flat
    K515 in C

    Vol 2
    K406 in C min
    K516 in G min

    Vol 3
    K593 in D
    K614 in E flat

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