Opus13
Sonoko Miriam Wilde and Edvard Erdal violins
Albin Uusijärvi viola, Daniel Thorell cello
Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
Thomas Adès Arcadiana, Op. 12
Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 No. 1
First Prize winners at both the 2025 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, and now BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the Oslo-based Opus13 is rapidly building a reputation on the international chamber music scene. Evergreens from Beethoven and Brahms balance an early work by Thomas Adès written in 1994 and designed to evoke images of the idyll.
Concert generously supported by Peter Glanfield
The finer details…
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £29 full price | £3 child/student
Middle Nave: £24 full price | £12 under-35s | £3 child/student
Rear Nave & Sides: £19 full price | £9.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Coull Quartet
Roger Coull and Paul Barritt violins
Jonathan Barritt viola, Nicholas Roberts cello
Haydn String Quartet, Op. 74 No. 1 in C major
Dvořák String Quartet No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34
Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1
Plus a special guest appearance by the Rugby-based
Ukrainian Shchedryk Choir
A fundraising concert for Ambulances for Ukraine.
With this concert, one Leamington-based charity will help another – Leamington Music is supporting the work of Belveder CIC, which purchases decommissioned vehicles from the UK ambulance service and drives them to Poland, where they are collected by the Ukrainian military and taken to the front line of the battlefields.
So far nearly 70 ambulances have been purchased and driven over in this way, stocked with medical supplies including dressings and also, particularly at Easter and Christmas, with presents for children in war affected areas of the country. Since 2022, between 10,000 and 20,000 lives of soldiers fighting to defend Ukraine have been saved by these ambulances and the supplies that they have been stocked with.
We aim to raise the £7,000 needed for an ambulance from this concert, and so all proceeds from ticket sales, programmes, and refreshments will be donated to achieve this.
With support from the Edith and Jack Griffiths Charitable Trust
The finer details…
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Unreserved: £25 full price | £12.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
If you can’t join us on the night but would like to support our fundraising efforts, please consider donating the price of a ticket (or whatever you can); you can do this by clicking on the button below:
Gildas Quartet
Tom Aldren and Gemma Sharples violins
Christine Anderson viola, Anna Menzies cello
Jessie Montgomery Strum
Alwyn String Quartet No. 1 in D minor
Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Rasumovsky’
Praised for their energy, verve, and refreshing approach, the Gildas Quartet have performed to critical acclaim at major venues including the Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, and live on BBC Radio 3. Their bold and explorative approach to performance has been recognised by the International Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition, Graz, where they won first prize in the Audience Engagement Award.
Concert generously supported by Peter Robinson
The finer details…
Interval: 20 mins
Estimated finish: 9.30pm
Tickets
Front Nave: £28 full price | £3 child/student
Middle Nave: £23 full price | £11.50 under-35s | £3 child/student
Rear Nave & Sides: £18 full price | £9 under-35s | £3 child/student
Arcadia Quartet
Ana Török and Răsvan Dumitru violins
Traian Boală viola, Zsolt Török cello
Haydn Quartet in B flat Op 33 No 4
Weinberg Quartet No 15
Beethoven Quartet in F Op 59 No 1
Winners of the 2012 London International String Quartet Competition, the Arcadia Quartet from Romania comes to Leamington for the third time. Interest in the Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, who was befriended by Shostakovich when, being Jewish, he fled to Russia in World War Two, has increased enormously in recent years. Weinberg wrote seven operas and 17 string quartets and we hope to programme more of this works in the future.
“…playing that maximises the emotional range explored in each work…” – BBC Music Magazine
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
Ensemble 360
Robert Plane clarinet, Amy Harman bassoon
Naomi Atherton horn
Benjamin Nabarro & Claudia Ajmone-Marsan violins, Rachel Roberts viola, Gemma Rosefield cello
with guest double bassist
Berwald Grand Septet in B flat
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Beethoven Septet in E flat Op 20
The Swedish composer Franz Berwald wrote his Grand Septet in 1828, the year after Beethoven died. He had completed his Septet in 1823, just before he embarked on his late string quartets. Between these two works is another opportunity to meet Ensemble 360’s new clarinettist in Mozart’s sublime Quintet.
“…brimming with body and soul with passion, vitality and virtuosity…” – The Independent
Concert generously supported by Murray Campbell, John Hobley, Jonathan Holden, Rose Ledlie, Roger Massie, Margaret Pringle, Peter Sunderland and Julia Winter
£20 unreserved
(£1 children / students)
Doric Quartet
Alex Redington and Ying Xue violins
Hélène Clément viola, John Myerscough cello
Beethoven Quartet in G Op 18 No 2
Berg Quartet Op 3
Smetana Quartet No 1 in E minor ‘From My Life’
Formed in 1998, the Doric Quartet performs for the fifth time in Leamington Music’s seventeen years – last appearing in the 2017 Festival. The quartet’s line-up has changed over the years but its pre-eminent position among British quartets remains at the top. Berg’s extraordinary Quartet sits between one of Beethoven’s earliest and Smetana’s great autobiographical work.
“…sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity…” – BBC Music Magazine
Concert generously supported by David & Gina Wilson
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
Piatti Quartet
Michael Trainor and Rebecca Chan violins
Tesuumi Nagata viola, Jessie Ann Richardson cello
Ullmann Quartet No 3 Op 46
Haas Quartet No 3
Beethoven Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2
On Holocaust Memorial Day, the Piatti Quartet, performing in Leamington for the fourth time and making their Concertgebouw Amsterdam debut this November, play quartets by two of the Terezín composers who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. The programme concludes with a work by Beethoven that featured in the ghetto’s remarkable cultural life. Leamington has been a centre for Czech music for many years now and the Terezín story regularly remembered in our programmes.
“A signally impressive young ensemble” – The Sunday Times
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
Eusebius Quartet
Beatrice Philips and Venetia Jollands violins
Hannah Shaw viola, Hannah Sloane cello
Haydn Quartet in G Op 76 No 1
Howard Skempton Tendrils
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op 127
Named after Schumann’s fictional character, this young Anglo-American quartet based in London was founded in 2016. Coming to Leamington for the first time, they play Haydn’s evergreen Quartet Op 76 No 1, alongside the first of Beethoven’s legendary late quartets and Howard Skempton’s Tendrils as a tribute for his 75th birthday.
“Wit and charm abound…” – The Strad
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
Brodsky Quartet
Krysia Osostowicz and Ian Belton violins
Paul Cassidy viola, Jacqueline Thomas cello
Borodin Scherzo from ‘Les Vendredis’
Beethoven Quartet in F Op 135
Shostakovich Quartet No 3 in F Op 73
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Brodsky Quartet returns to Leamington playing key works by composers whose complete quartet cycles have been a feature of recent years. Borodin’s Scherzo was one of the many works specially written for a series of performances organized by a music-loving tycoon in St Petersburg that took place on Fridays. String Quartets on Fridays have been a feature of musical life first in Warwick and then in Leamington since 1988, as we start another exciting season.
6.15pm in the Conservatory | free to all advance-purchase ticket holders
Pre-concert talk on books written by Paul Cassidy and Jacqueline Thomas
“Fiercely focused, blazing with integrity, and brilliantly imagined…” – The Telegraph
Concert generously supported by Margaret Goode
£26 | £16
(£1 children / students)
Tereza Privratska and Julia Loucks violins
Lorena Cantó Woltèche viola, Toby White cello
Schubert Quartettsatz D703
Sylvie Bodorová Quartet No 4 ‘Shofarot’
Beethoven Quartet in A minor Op 132
Originally formed in London in 2006, the Jubilee Quartet is currently Associate String Quartet at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Its most recent appearance in Leamington was in the 2017 Festival playing the Mendelssohn Octet with the Doric Quartet.
Sylvie Bodorová’s Terezín Ghetto Requiem has been performed four times at Holy Trinity, so the UK premiere of her fourth quartet is eagerly awaited.
Concert generously supported by the Low-Beer Trust
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