Gildas Quartet
The Gildas Quartet is a British string quartet.
History
[edit]The Gildas Quartet formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2011. They have studied with Oliver Wille, Robin Ireland, and Catherine Manson, and have also benefited from masterclasses from Alfred Brendel, Paul Cassidy, Gabor Takacs Nagy, and András Keller, among others.[citation needed]
They have performed at major venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall (via video) and Purcell Room. In 2013 they performed live on BBC Radio 3 program In Tune.[1]
The Gildas Quartet were semi-finalists at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2018.[2] The same year, the quartet received the Audience Engagement Award in the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition held in Graz.[3]
Affiliations
[edit]The quartet are City Music Foundation Artists[4] and Associate Ensemble at the Birmingham Conservatoire.[5]
Members
[edit]The Quartet consists of Christopher Jones, Gemma Sharples (violin), Kay Stephen (viola) and Anna Menzies (cello).
References
[edit]- ^ "The Full English, Gildas String Quartet, Thomas Carroll, Anthony Hewitt, In Tune – BBC Radio 3". BBC. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ "2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition". ABC Classic. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "The Gildas Quartet appoints new members". The Strad. 15 May 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
The Gildas Quartet was established in 2011 ... and won first prize in the 2018 Audience Engagement Award at the International Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Graz, Austria.
- ^ Design, David Hughes. "City Music Foundation". Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ "Ensembles". Birmingham City University. Retrieved 7 October 2019.