First prize winners in the 2009 Royal Over-seas League Competition and selected by both the Tillett Trust and Park Lane Group in 2008 the quartet made their debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in 2009. Since then they have returned to both venues several times and have made other major debuts including the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Established whilst studying at the Cambridge University in 2003, they held a Junior Fellowship at the IIMC in Madrid in 2008-9 where they studied with Prof. Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet. The Quartet subsequently held a Leverhulme Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music and the Richard Carne Fellowship at Trinity College of Music.

Solstice has performed throughout the UK and internationally, performing at major music festivals such as Dartington, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Canterbury 'Sounds New' Festival and Aberystwyth, and has performed live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV. They have collaborated with artists including Steven Isserlis, Tom Poster, Richard Harwood, Philip Dukes and David Campbell. Other recent engagements have included performances at LSO St. Luke’s, a debut at the Cheltenham Festival, the release of the film ‘An Education’ in which the quartet can be seen performing Ravel’s ‘Introduction and Allegro’ and a performance in the Janáček Festival in Luhacovice, Czech Republic.

The Solstice Quartet have premiered new works by Giles Swayne, John Metcalf, Joseph Phibbs, Richard Blackford, Graham Ross, Gregor Riddell, Michael Langemann, Rolf Wallin and Graham Williams. Their CD of music by John Metcalf, ‘Paths of Song’ was released on Signum Classics in September 2010.

The Solstice Quartet have been fortunate to study with many outstanding musicians including members of the Alban Berg Quartet, Thomas Brandis, Walter Levin, Heime Müller, Rainer Schmidt, David Waterman, Stephanie Gonley and Hugh Maguire. The quartet continue to benefit from Richard Ireland's flourishing‘ChamberStudio’programme at Kings Place. The members of the Solstice are extremely grateful to the Richard Carne Foundation, the Hattori Foundation and the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust for their support. Jamie plays a violin by Wiltrud Fauler made in New York in 2005, Helena plays a violin by Edward l'Anson from 1857, Meghan plays a viola by Martin Godliman from 1980, and Gregor plays a cello by Thomas Dodd made in 1799.