Past Schedule Current

Performance and masterclass 3pm

8pm, Town Hall Theatre    http://www.musicforgalway.ie
Midwinter Festival: ‘Soundtracks for Superpowers’ – Haydn & Shostakovich
HAYDN Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 “Joke”
SHOSTAKOVICH 7 Romances for soprano and piano trio (texts by Alexander Blok)
HAYDN Songs
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 12 in D flat, Op. 133
With Finghin Collins – Piano and Helen Kearns – soprano

8pm, Town Hall Theatre    http://www.musicforgalway.ie
Midwinter Festival: ‘Soundtracks for Superpowers’ – Haydn & Shostakovich
HAYDN Piano Sonata in E flat Hob XVI:49
HAYDN Arianna a Naxos
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
With Finghin Collins – Piano and Helen Kearns – soprano

8pm, Town Hall Theatre    http://www.musicforgalway.ie
Midwinter Festival: ‘Soundtracks for Superpowers’ – Haydn & Shostakovich
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
With the Contempo Quartet

5pm – David Josefowitz Hall

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Graham Williams – Quartet No.8
Shostakovich – Quartet No.12

8pm – Curtis Auditorium – Cork School of Music

Shostakovich Quartets 1,4 and 12.
As part of the around Ireland www.shostakovich15.com

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
London, NW3 6NP

11.15am – Oxford Coffee Concert

Shostakovich Quartets 1,8,12
Launch of the Oxford complete cycle
www.shostakovich15.com

7.30pm – St George’s Hall

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.4
Beethoven – Quartet Op.59 No.2
http://www.liverpoolphil.com/14386/events-classical-music/carducci-string-quartet.html 

11:30am / Hall One – Carducci Quartet plays Steve Reich

Steve Reich I Different Trains for String Quartet and tape (1988)
WTC 9/11 for String Quartet (2010)
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/carducci-quartet-plays-reich-different-trains-wtc-911#.VBf7yMhwbIU

27th Feb – 1st March

Organised by ‘Wigmore Hall learning’

3pm – The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.6
Shostakovich – Quartet No.1
Elgar Quartet
http://www.shropshiremusictrust.co.uk/carducci-1/4579061600

7.30pm – Regal Theatre

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.6
Shostakovich – Quartet No.10
Elgar Quartet
Part of our ‘West Country’ cycle – www.shostakovich15.com

11.15am – Oxford Coffee Concert

Shostakovich – Quartet No.10
Elgar String Quartet
part of the Oxford complete cycle
www.shostakovich15.com

7pm – Cardiff University Concert Hall

Philip Glass – String Quartet No.3 “Mishima”
Arlene Sierra – Insects in Amber
Steve Reich – Different Trains
http://concerts.cardiff.ac.uk/events/2-3-and-4-of-a-kind-and-stateside-4-carducci-quartet/

7.30pm – Malvern Theatres  

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.6
Shostakovich – Quartet No.11
Elgar Quartet
http://www.malvern-concert-club.co.uk/Home.html
Part of our ‘West Country’ cycle  www.shostakovich15.com

11am – CAVATINA Family Concert

https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/carducci-string-quartet-201503211100

‘Come and Play’ – String Quartet day

Event promoted by the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

7.30pm – Merton College Chapel

Passiontide at Merton
Arvo Pärt – Fratres, Summa and Stabat Mater
http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/node/1349

3pm – St Mary’s Church

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2  ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.9
Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.1
As part of our ‘West Country’ cycle  www.shostakovich15.com

3pm – Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury School

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.8
Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.1
http://www.shropshiremusictrust.co.uk/carducci-11/4579072423

7:30pm / Hall One

Philip Glass quartets
String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mishima’ (1985)
String Quartet No. 1 (1966)
String Quartet No. 4 ‘Buczak’ (1989)
String Quartet No. 2 ‘Company’ (1983)
String Quartet No. 5 (1991)
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/music/carducci-quartet-plays-glass-the-five-string-quartets#.VBgIrchwbIU

8.15pm – The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College

Glass – Quartet No.3 ‘Mishima’
Boccherini – Guitar Quintet ‘Fandango’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.9
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/sqf

1-3rd May – Recording Clarinet Quintets with Julian Bliss

http://www.signumrecords.com/

3pm – Concord College, Acton Burnell

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Puccini – ‘Crisantemi’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.15
http://www.shropshiremusictrust.co.uk/carducci-quartet-iii/4579073245

11.15 am – Holywell Music Room

Shostakovich – Quartet No.7
Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.13
Part of the Oxford complete Shostakovich cycle
http://coffeeconcerts.co.uk/

4pm – St Mary’s Church, Adderbury

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.13
Mendelssohn – Quartet Op.80
http://coffeeconcerts.co.uk/music-in-adderbury/

7.30pm – Highnam Church

Cello Connections
Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Bach – Suite for Solo Cello No.2
Schubert – String Quintet
with Guy Johnston – cello
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

7pm – Highnam Church

Romantic Masterpieces
Mozart – Songs including Abendempfindung, Das Veilchen, and Als Luise die Briefe
Faure – La Bonne Chanson, Song Cycle for Voice, Piano and Strings Op.61
Elgar – Piano Quintet Op.84
with Katharine Dain – soprano, and Julius Drake – piano
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

11.30am – Gambier Parry Hall

Family Concert
Join us for a relaxed hour of musical fun and games including the chance to “try a stringed instrument”.
Free entry – no ticket required Sponsored by the CAVATINA Chamber Music trust.
CAVATINA brings young people to Chamber Music  and Chamber Music to young People.
Followed by Gloucestershire Young Musician Showcase 12.30pm – Jen Statham (violin)
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

9.30pm – Highnam Church

Late Night Shostakovich
Shostakovich – Quartet No.5
Shostakovich – Quartet No.13
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

11am – Highnam Court Orangery

Coffee Concert: Tango Sensations
Puccini – I Crisantemi (The Chrysanthemums)
Solo guitar pieces by Scarlatti, Albeniz and Gary Ryan
Piazzolla – Five Tango Sensations for Guitar and String Quartet
with Craig Ogden – guitar
SOLD OUT!
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

4.30pm – Highnam Church

Festival Finale
Mendelssohn – Quartet Op.80
Mendelssohn – String Octet
with the Cavaleri Quartet
https://carducciquartet.com/festivals/

6th – 9th June – Music in a French Village

for John Whibley ‘Holidays with Music’
http://www.whibley.co.uk/Default.asp?P=Holiday&HID=58

7.30pm – Wigmore Hall

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Anthony Gilbert – New work for string quintet*(world première)
Schubert – String Quintet
with Guy Johnston – cello
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/carducci-string-quartet-guy-johnston-cello-36079

8pm – St Iberius Church, Wexford

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.6
Elgar – Piano Quintet
with Finghin Collins – piano

3pm – St Colman’s Church, Farahy

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.14
Dvorak – Quartet Op.96 ‘American’

7.30pm – Thaxted

Shostakovich – String Octet
Mendelssohn – String Octet
Schubert – String Quintet
with the Brodowski Quartet
http://www.the-trumpet.co.uk/community/thaxted-festival/posts/brodowski-carducci.html

27th – 28th June, Syde Manor, Tithe Barn, GL53 9PN

Complete Shostakovich cycle for Cheltenham Music Festival
http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats-on/grid

7.30pm Dymock – St Mary’s Church

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.3
Mendelssohn – Quartet Op.80
Tickets : 01531 890676

7.30pm Sparsholt (Oxon) Church

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.3
Menselssohn – Quartet Op.80
Tickets : 01235 751540

11.15am – Oxford Coffee Concert

Shostakovich Quartet no.3
Mendelssohn Quartet op.80
http://coffeeconcerts.co.uk/

Christchurch, Rode

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.2
Dvorak – Quartet Op.96 ‘American’
Tickets  01373 831464

8pm, Jubilee Hall, Seer Green, Bucks

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Cassado – Suite for Cello solo
Schubert – String Quintet
with Christian-Pierre La Marca – cello
http://jordansmusicclub.org.uk/carducciquartet/

7.30pm – Budleigh Salterton

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.9
Dvorak – Quartet Op.96 ‘American’
http://budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/contacts/

11.15am – Oxford Coffee Concert

Puccini, Shostakovich and Dvorak

7.30pm – St Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo SA19 6EN

Programme includes Elgar Piano Quintet
Pascal Amoyel – piano
www.clefdesoleil.com

http://www.prieuredechirens.fr

On the 9th August 2015 – the 40^th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, we will commemorate the day with a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ event – performing the complete quartets in one day!
The venue is the wonderful Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
We hope you’ll join us on our epic journey! Tickets now on sale!
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/theatre/whats-on/concerts-by-candlelight/shostakovich
www.shostakovich15.com

19-23rd August – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

Venues include – Auditorio Banco de la Republica, Neiva
Teatro Mayor de la Biblioteca Julio Mario Santodomingo, Bogota
Sala de Conciertos Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota

7.30pm – Malmesbury Abbey

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.6
Shostakovich – Quartet No.3
http://www.malmesbury.com/component/mtree/organisations/clubs-a-societies/malmesbury-abbey-music-society

7.30pm  – Music Schools, Harrow School, Football Lane, Harrow HA1 3EA

Haydn – Quartet ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet 4
Schumann – Piano Quintet – with Simon Callaghan

7.30pm – St Mary’s Church

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.4
Mozart – String Quintet
with Rachel Roberts – viola
http://beverleychambermusicfestival.org.uk/

7.30pm – St Mary’s Church

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke’
Shostakovich – Quartet No.8
Schubert – String Quintet
with Ralph Kirschbaum – cello
http://beverleychambermusicfestival.org.uk/events/

7.30pm – the Atrix

Shostakovich – Quartet No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.14
Shostakovich – Quartet No.12
http://www.bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk/index.php/site/index

26-27th September – Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

4 concerts – 1am and 4pm each day.
www.aldeburgh.co.uk
Tel. 01728 687110

7.45pm – St Mary the Virgin Church, Twickenham

Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “Joke”
Pärt: Summa
Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
Mozart: Quintet No. 3 in C, K515
With Simon Rowland-Jones viola
http://richmondconcerts.co.uk/season54/concerts.shtml

7.30pm – Assembly Room, Chichester Council House

Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “Joke”
Shostakovich: Quartet no.3
Pärt: Summa
Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
http://www.chichesterchamberconcerts.com/program.html

3-4th October – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

4 concerts – 2pm and 7pm each day.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiffmusic
tel. 03336 663366

6.30pm, The Church of the Holy Cross, GL11 5BZ

Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “Joke”
Shostakovich: Quartet no.4
Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
Tickets: 01453 860329

11.30am – Wigmore Hall

Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.4
Shostakovich – Quartet No.3
http://wigmore-hall.org.uk/

St James’ Church

Weber: Clarinet Quintet
Shostakovich: String quartet No. 7
Schubert: Octet
With Emma Johnson Clarinet
http://www.campdenmusic.org.uk/contentok.php?id=77

St Mary de Lode Church, Archdeacon St, Gloucester, GL1 2QT

Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “Joke”
Shostakovich: Quartet no.4
Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
http://www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk/

Mary de Lode Church, Archdeacon Street,  Gloucester GL1 2QT

11.15am – Coffee concert

http://coffeeconcerts.co.uk/

Rhyl Town Hall, North Wales

Haydn: Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, Hob. III:38 “Joke”
Shostakovich: Quartet no.4
Beethoven: Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4
http://rhylmusic.com/Concert-Details.html

5-8th November – CIT Cork School of Music – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

7.30pm  Westminster Theatre, Chancellor’s Building, Keele University

Haydn, Shostakovich, Schubert
http://www.keele.ac.uk/artskeele/whatson/music/keeleconcertsocietyevents/title,133688,en.php

The Phillips Collection – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

6.30pm Le Poisson Rouge,
158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 505-FISH (3474)

Shostakovich Quartets 8 & 9
http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/carducci-string-quartet-november-17th-2015/

7.30pm – Bourgie Hall, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Haydn – Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘Joke
Shostakovich – Quartet No.8
Schubert – Quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/shop-online/concerts/carducci-quartet-tiffany-series/1722/

The Phillips Collection – Complete Shostakovich Quartets

7.30pm at Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade

Haydn Quartet in D Op 33 No 6
Shostakovich Quartet No 3
Vivaldi Lute Concerto RV93
Boccherini Quintet in D G448 Fandango
With Morgan Szymanski guitar
http://leamingtonmusic.org/20152016/2015_ISQ_27_Nov_Carducci.html

7.30pm – Whitstable Music Society

Haydn: String Quartet in A major Op.20 No.6
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.3 Op.73
Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor (Death and the Maiden)
http://www.whitstablemusicsociety.org.uk/

Composition workshop

String Quartet day at Dean Close.
Supported by Wigmore Learning and the Carducci Trust.

1-6pm Masterclasses

7.30pm  Pitville Pump Room

Finale to our Shostakovich15 year!
Haydn – String Quartet op.33 no.6
Shostakovich – String Quartet no.15 in E flat minor op.144
Shostakovich – Piano Quintet in G minor op.57
With Julius Drake – piano
http://www.cheltmusicsoc.co.uk/