The Australian String Quartet will perform European masterpieces in Sydney in August as part of its largest tour for 2014. Quartet members violinists Kristian Winther and Ioana Tache, violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper will perform a programme featuring three masterpieces from the string quartet repertoire by Haydn, Beethoven and Bartók performed on the quartet’s rare…
The Australian String Quartet has announced that violinist Ioanna Tache and cellist Sharon Draper will join present members violinist Kristian Winther and violist Stephen King to form a new line – up for the ensemble. Both newcomers are graduates of the Australian National Academy of Music. The newly re-configured ensemble will perform in Sydney on…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) presents a program they have called Debussy, centred around Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor and featuring as well, the music of Mendelssohn, Andrew Ford and Arvo Pärt. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op.44 No.2, a work of dazzling string writing completed on the composer’s honeymoon, negotiates the fine line between the elegiac and…