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Winner of the 2011 Royal Overseas League Elias Fawcett Award for an outstanding chamber music ensemble, the Castalian String Quartet was formed in London in 2010 by multi-award winning graduates of the Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Academy of Music and Eastman School of Music, USA. They are rapidly gaining a reputation at festivals and concert halls in the UK and abroad for their “phenomenal impact on audiences”. The Castalian Quartet performs regularly throughout the UK and abroad and was selected by the British Council to represent the UK in a concert tour of South China last year. The quartet has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Kings Place, as well as in Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. As winners of the 2011 Tunnell Trust Award they are looking forward to touring Scotland next season, and will be giving concerts across the UK as artists on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme. The Castalian Quartet is the Musicians Benevolent Fund Associate Ensemble at the Lake District Summer Music Festival and has been invited to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Castalian Quartet is currently studying with Oliver Wille in Hannover, Levon Chilingirian and with Thomas Brandis at the Royal Academy of Music, where they hold the 2011/12 Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship. They have had master classes with Levon Chilingirian, Garfield Jackson, and members of the Kuss and Skampa Quartets. Sadie and Daniel are very grateful to the Royal Academy of Music and the Worshipful Company of Musicians for the loan of two fine violins by Joseph Guarneri Filius Andrea, both from 1705. Charlotte plays on a modern viola made by William Castle. Rebecca would like to thank the Royal Academy of Music for the loan of a Ruggieri cello. Individually, the members of the quartet have performed as soloists and chamber musicians throughout the world, including concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Hong Kong City Hall, Salle Cortot, Auditorium du Louvre and festivals in Canada, USA, Mexico, Austria and Israel. Solo accolades include awards from the International Wienawski Competition, Johannes Brahms Competition, Royal Overseas League, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Countess of Munster Trust, Philharmonia Martin Musical Scholarship, Hattori Foundation, Concordia Foundation and further competitions in Croatia and New Zealand. |
