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Consone Quartet
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The Consone Quartet presents a programme of early Mozart and late Haydn. Written when he was just 17 years old, K.170 is one of Mozart's earliest works for string quartet. By contrast, Haydn's last set of string quartets - his Op. 77 - was composed as Beethoven was publishing his first in this genre.
Mozart- String Quartet in C major, K.170
Haydn - String Quartet in G major, Op.77, No.1
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Consone Quartet
Winners of the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Strings/Keyboard Ensemble Prize, London based Consone Quartet is dedicated to exploring and recreating the sound-worlds of the classical and early romantic string quartet repertoire through period instrument performance.
The quartet's success at the finals of the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition brought them the EUBO Development Trust prize and a place on the prestigious Eeemerging Scheme (European Emerging Ensembles) supporting young early music ensembles within the framework of the Creative Europe programme. Currently in the second year of EEEmerging, the group has performed at the 2015 REMA showcase in Prague, the 2015 Concerts in the West series, NCEM in York, AMUZ in Belgium, Ambronay Festival in France and Ghislieri Musica in Pavia, Italy. Consone will be returning to Ambronay for a residency and for the 2017 festival. Recent performances took place at Cadogan Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and 'Bulgaria' Chamber Hall in Sofia. The quartet also performed for the BBC programme "Between the Ears",broadcast on Radio 3.
Consone has participated in master classes with Lucy Russell, Catherine Martin, Jean Patterson, Kati Debretzeni and members of Ironwood (Australia), as well as Richard Ireland and Richard Lester (as part of Chamber Studio).
Last year the group was selected as one of the young ensembles on the Brighton Early Music Live! Scheme.
Future engagements include concerts at Buxton Festival, York Early Music Festival, Lake District Summer Music, Brighton Early Music Festival, Vienna with Ashley Solomon (flute) and Colin Lawson (clarinet) as well as a joint recital at the Wigmore Hall.
Agata Daraskaite, violin Magdalena Loth-Hill, violin Elitsa Bogdanova, viola George Ross, cello