The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) welcomes three guest artists in their final national tour for 2014, Relativity. Award‐winning soprano Greta Bradman will join the ASQ to perform Paul Stanhope’s Sea Chronicles, a song cycle for soprano and string quartet which celebrates Australia’s unique coastal environment and the late Peter Sculthorpe’s Island Dreaming, a single‐movement work which draws together…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) will not continue in its current configuration beyond 2014 due to artistic differences. Along with performing an annual national concert series, the quartet is also Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Adelaide. After careful consideration, the Board of the ASQ has appointed violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper to lead the quartet into the future. Chairman of the board Paul Clitheroe said “the ASQ’s most recent performances have been truly exceptional and despite…
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…