Neston Music Festival: Victoria String Quartet
Neston Music Festival: Victoria String Quartet
An evening with The Victoria String Quartet performing as part of the Neston Music Festival 2025
Date: Saturday 3rd May at 7.30pm
Venue: United Reformed Church,
Moorside Lane,
Neston CH64 6UZ
Programme:
Haydn, op 1 no 1, "La Chasse",
Ravel String Quartet
Shostakovich Quartet no 4, op. 83.
Sponsored by The Parkgate Society
Purchase your tickets here and you can collect them at the door on the night.
Price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.
In demand since its formation in 2017, the Victoria String Quartet has performed chamber music throughout the UK and has been hailed as an ensemble ‘brim full with pedigree and wide experience’ (Buxton International Festival), with concerts at venues including Kendal (Lake District Summer Music), Pinner and Buxton Festivals, London, Manchester (Bridgewater, RNCM and Stoller halls), north Norfolk, north and west Wales and the Scottish Borders.
In addition to gathering return invitations to chamber music societies and festivals, the Victoria has curated an ongoing programme of creative projects: a collection of short chamber works about (and by) Sir John Manduell (Divine Arts), a recording of the Weber, Cooke and Brahms clarinet quintets, and a CD of string chamber music by Richard Pantcheff with BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney (2024 Prima Facie). Recently a residency at Marchmont House in the Scottish Borders saw the Quartet perform and record a collection of string chamber works by Scottish composer Helen Leach (2024 Divine Arts), which has enjoyed great success on BBC Radio 3. Enthusiasts for lost and undiscovered works, in 2022 the Quartet gave the first public performances of Elgar’s Six Fragments for String Quartet and are looking forward to recording them in 2025.
Ben Holland (violin)
David Greed (violin)
Kimi Makino (viola)
Adrian Bradbury (cello)