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Ellie Premiere in Vancouver International Film Festival
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Ellie screening at BAFTA
The film is the 5th collaboration between director Chris Dundon and composer and great quartet friend Matthew Slater. It follows the story of Ellie, a teenage female boxing fanatic who has a strained relationship with her father. Teenage angst told in a beautiful way. Ellie has a decision to make over a fight that could change her career.
Cinematic Quartet track used for trailer for Dutch film Among Us
The track Hope for Strings from our library album Cinematic String Quartet is currently being used as the trailer music for the Dutch film Among Us directed by Marco van Geffen.
The film is being screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2011.
Recital in Shobrooke, Devon, 16th July 2011
We’re really looking forward to playing this concert this weekend.
The start time of the concert is 7pm not 7.30pm as previously stated.
Recital in Shobrooke, Devon on 16th July 2011
The quartet will be performing at St. Swithins Church, Shobrooke, Devon on 16th July 2011 at 1900.
The programme is in memory of Geoffrey Stern, a great friend and champion of the quartet and has been organised by his partner Joy Moore. It will consist of 2 pieces from the quartet’s recent composition competition organised in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, a quartet by Geoffrey that was premiered by the quartet and will finish with the wonderful G minor quartet by Vaughan Williams.
Ben Cox In Memoriam
Duncan Ward Eugene Cruft’s Radio
Geoffrey Stern String Quartet
Ralph Vaughan Williams String Quartet in G minor
Junior Guildhall Composers Workshop
Just a quick post to say well done to all the young composers who took part in the composers workshop at the weekend. We had a great time playing through all your compositions. A big thank you to Jeffery Wilson for organising the event and also to Michael Christie for playing the 2nd cello part for Rhiannon Randle’s quintet.
Match report from Jeffery to follow.
Junior Guildhall Composition Workshop
The quartet are going to be working with several talented young composers this saturday at the Junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. We’re all very much looking forward to playing the new compositions by next generation’s rising stars.
Performing in France 29th May 2011
The quartet will be performing at the Musée d’Art Sacré Contemporain in St. Hughes-de-Chartreuse, near Grenoble on Sunday 29th May 2011 at 16h. The programme will be:
Josef Suk Meditation on Wenceslas Chorale
Ralph Vaughan Williams Quartet in G minor
G.I.Gurdjieff/T. de Hartmann Kurd Shepherd Melody
G.I.Gurdjieff/T. de Hartmann Dervish Dance
This concert forms part of the series Musiques au coeur des musées.
Mosaic Nomad Review in The Strad
Greek-Armenian mystic George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff travelled extensively through Central Asia, Russia and Egypt, collecting sacred, monastic and tribal music and then transcribing and arranging it with the help of Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann in the 1920s. The resulting volumes of piano music have been rearranged for string quartet for the first time here.
The unmistakably Romantic sound world built by de Hartmann around the transcriptions will sound conservative to ears familiar with the Silk Road Ensemble and Kronos Quartet’s contemporary interpretations of Asian music, and the persistent ‘top-line melody plus accompaniment’ format gets a little monotonous. But the Solaris Quartet players offer a considered and convincing performance. The cello and viola, throbbing almost imperceptibly in the opening Chant and offering measured drones elsewhere, rightly focus attention on the melody, though the lower parts do surge and thrust when required, as in the Dervish Dance and Kurd Melody. Up top, Roland Roberts brings the melodies to life with commitment, even if the recorded sound comes across as a little distant and detached.
Chris Elcombe – The Strad Oct 2010
Review of Cinematic Quartet
Less is more. It’s hard to believe that four musicians can create such vivid emotions, but SQ031 Cinematic String Quartet proves it! This one is moodier than manic depression – determination, doubt, sadness, anxiety, excitement, curiosity, glorious hope and playful fancy. Think of it as the emotional Yin and Yang of dramatic production music!