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RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet Resident Quartet to Radio Telefis Eireann – Artists in Residence to University College, Cork
Winner
of the 1988 London International String Quartet Competition and now in its
twenty-fourth concert season, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet is one of Europe's most
successful ensembles internationally recognised for its beauty of sound, clarity
of texture and integrity of interpretation within an unusually wide and varied
range of repertoire. Familiar visitors to all the main UK festivals the Vanbrugh
Quartet also broadcasts frequently for BBC Radio 3 and performs regularly at
London’s Wigmore Hall and South Bank. 2007 marked 21 years since the Vanbrugh Quartet took up its
residency with RTÉ in 1986 and the occasion was marked in style. In the UK the
Quartet continues its Music in the Round series, returning to the Conway and
Wigmore Halls as well undertaking a nationwide tour. 2008 has brought further successful
tours of Italy and the USA as well as visits to festivals in Estonia (David
Oistrakh Festival) and Russia (Northern Flowers Festival).
In January 2009 the Quartet took up a new post as lecturers
in chamber music at DIT, Dublin, continuing their work developing chamber music
in Ireland. Hyperion have released the second of two Vanbrugh Quartet CDs
of chamber music by Charles Villiers Stanford. This was featured as Editor’s
Choice in Gramophone Magazine in February 2006. The Quartet’s recording of
three of Boccherini’s cello quintets on Hyperion was also featured as
Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine. Other recent CDs include Metronome’s second CD devoted to
the music of Piers Hellawell, a Black Box release of Ian Wilson's three quartets
and a recording for Hyperion of works for quartet and soprano by John Tavener.
These recordings join a discography of twenty-one releases which includes the
complete Beethoven Quartets and works by Haydn, Schubert, Dvorak, Janacek,
Dohnanyi, E.J. Moeran, Robert Simpson, John Tavener, John McCabe, John Kinsella,
Raymond Deane and Brian Boydell.
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