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Marmen Quartet

Johannes Marmen and Laia Braun violins
Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola, Sinéad O’Halloran cello

Haydn   Quartet in B flat Op 64 No 3
Mozart   Quartet in E flat K428 
Brahms   Quartet in C minor Op 51 No 1

Chosen by Peter Cropper as the very first winners of Music in the Round’s Bridge scheme, the Marmen Quartet return to the area for the first time since 2016, having won the Grand Prize of the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2019 as well as the First Prize of the Banff International String Quartet Competition.

The Quartet made their BBC Proms debut this August, performing Robert Simpson’s Quartet No 1, which they bring now to the town of his birth in this powerful programme.

Concert generously sponsored by Investec