18.6.2010
Solstice Quartet awarded RIchard Carne Fellowship at Trinity College of Music
This will start in September 2010.
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9.6.2010
Hattori Foundation Senior Award Winners
The quartet have been awarded an ensemble award to help them with their study plans for 2010-2011.
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30.4.2010
Helena Nicholls appointed as 2nd Violin
The quartet are delighted to welcome Helena as 2nd violin. New photos to follow shortly...
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30.10.2009
'An Education' film release
Members of the quartet can been seen performing Ravel's 'Introduction and Allegro' in the film which is released by Sony Pictures on Friday 30th October. The other performers are Timothy Orpen (Clarinet), Adam Walker (flute) and Keziah Thomas (harp).
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6.5.2009
Solstice String Quartet awarded the Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Music.
This award will commence in September 2009.
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6.3.2009
Solstice String Quartet win Royal Overseas League Competition
The quartet were awarded the ensemble award. They will perform in the Prize winners' concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on May 5th.
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23.1.2009
Solstice String Quartet featured in the February issue of the 'Strad' Magazine.
The quartet are featured in the 'Familiar Names, Fresh Faces' section.
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19.1.2009
The Solstice are selected to participate in the 4th International "Joseph Haydn" Chamber Music Competition in Vienna, Austria.
The competition takes place from the 15 – 23 April 2009. Further details can be found at: www.mdw.ac.at/haydn_competition.
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9.1.2009
Solstice String Quartet awarded their Purcell Room debut through the Park Lane Group Young Artists Scheme.
The programme will include works by Ligeti, Cutler, Swayne and Kurtag.
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28.11.2008
Solstice String Quartet selected to participate in the London International String Quartet Competition 2009.
From the initial pre-selection round twelve quartets from across the world have been chosen to participate. The competition takes place between the 30th March and the 6th April 2009. Further details can be found at: http://www.playquartet.com
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11.9.2008
Eminent composer Giles Swayne offers to write a fourth quartet for the Solstice String Quartet.
Giles Swayne asks the quartet to record his complete quartets in 2010.
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7.4.2008
Solstice String Quartet awarded Scholarship to study at the International Institute of Chamber Music, Madrid.
The quartet will study every month with Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) and Heime Müller (ex Artemis Quartet) starting in October 2008.
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4.4.2008
Solstice String Quartet selected for Juilliard String Quartet Seminar.
The quartet will spend a week at the Juilliard School in May studying with the world-famous Juilliard String Quartet.
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18.2.2008
Solstice String Quartet selected for Tillett Trust Young Artists' Programme.
The quartet will be represented by the Tillett Trust for a year through which they will give performances around the country. They will make their Wigmore Hall debut on February 16th 2009.
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