We regret to announce that due to the disruption of train services across the first weekend of our 2023 Festival, the Piatti String Quartet have very reluctantly been compelled due to personal circumstances to withdraw from the evening performance on Friday 21st July and the Family Concert on the morning of Saturday 22nd July.
However, we are very pleased to have been able to arrange wonderful musicians to take these spots instead. For more information on the performers, please see below.
Friday 21st July at 7.30pm
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Judith van Driel, Violin I
Marleen Wester, Violin II
Marie-Louise de Jong, Viola
David Faber, Cello
Pérotin (arr. Dudok Quartet) Viderunt Omnes
Machaut (arr. Dudok Quartet) Kyrie from ‘Messe de Nostre Dame’
Gesualdo (arr. Dudok Quartet) Deh come invan sospiro
Mozart String Quartet No. 23 in F, K.590
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op.30
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is forging a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile quartets of its generation. With its ethos of “sharing the heart of music”, the Quartet believes that chamber music is an act of friendship to be shared directly with audiences and is committed to crafting unique and eclectic programmes that engage listeners in new and imaginative ways. The Quartet’s ethos can be summed up in their belief that “the music we play is never old or new, but always relevant and present.”
The Dudok Quartet has performed at many of the major European venues and festivals including the Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, Beethovenhaus Bonn, De Bijloke, Barcelona Auditori, De Doelen, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, BBC Proms, Heidelberg String Quartet Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale, as well as appearing regularly at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Amsterdam Muziekgebouw. The Quartet made its US debut in 2018 at the Northwestern University Winter Chamber Music Festival, with other recent highlights including a New York debut at the Park Avenue Armory and digital concerts for the Washington Library of Congress and Fontana Chamber Arts Kalamazoo.
Simply revelatory. The players’ persistent delicacy, the freshly though-out balances between Instrumental lines, the communication of music so familiar as something new, was extraordinarily energising in its effect.
Saturday 22nd July at 10.00am
We are delighted that our Family Concert will now be led by Breanna Wilson & Sophie Joint.
Breanna Wilson is a fiddle player from Glasgow who has recently completed her fourth year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She grew up playing trad music in Glasgow and has competed at the Fleadh multiple times. She has performed at various festivals such as Celtic Connections, Celtic Colours and IMBOLC and is also an avid composer.
Sophie Joint is a pianist from Glasgow with a background in Scottish and Irish traditional music. She has just finished her final year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and has won a Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections and The Molloy Award at Birmingham Trad Fest. Sophie enjoys composing and arranging in a contemporary style with strong traditional roots and has performed at international festivals including Festival Interceltique de Lorient and Celtic Colours in Canada.
Sophie and Brianna were both finalists in the 2022 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition. They will introduce their programme from the stage.
