John Myerscough coaches the Fibonacci Quartet
Bartok String Quartet No. 4
The Long Gallery, Lauderdale House
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Luna De Mol and Kryštof Kohout, violins
Elliot Kempton, viola
Findlay Spence, cello
The Fibonacci Quartet are one of Europe's leading young string quartets, regularly performing at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Auditorio Sony, Conway Hall, and Museo del Violino, Cremona.
The Quartet are a Resident Ensemble at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with former Alban Berg Quartet leader Guenter Pichler and at the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam with Marc Danel of the Danel Quartet. They have received mentoring from Quartetto di Cremona at the Stauffer Centre and have been privileged to work closely with Eberhard Feltz.
They have received awards including First Prize in the Royal Overseas League International Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in the Cavatina Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in the Triomphe de l’Art Competition in Belgium, Audience Prize at the Schiermonikoog Festival, and the Special Prize of the Shostakovich Association in Paris. The Quartet also received the Peermusik Hamburg Prize and First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in London.
The Quartet frequently perform in association with ProQuartet in France and Dimore del Quartetto in Italy and tour around the UK in their capacity as Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists. They have been mentored by members of the Brodsky, Endellion, Belcea, Chilingirian, Castalian, Bozzini, and Consone Quartets as well as Gary Hoffman, Alasdair Tait, and Adrian Brendel.
Additionally, the Quartet regularly give radio and television broadcasts including on Dutch National Television and BBC Radio 3. They were privileged to work closely with Kaija Saariaho on a new recording of ‘Terra Memoria’ made at the Barbican as part of the BBC Total Immersion series.
The Fibonacci Quartet are generously supported by the Escuela Reina Sofia, the Hattori Foundation, Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre (Paris) and Talent Unlimited.
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John Myerscough leads a busy international career as the cellist of the Doric String Quartet. Regular visitors to London’s Wigmore Hall, since 2010 the Quartet has recorded exclusively for Chandos Records, with recent releases including the complete Britten quartets, works by Mendelssohn, Schubert and Brett Dean, as well as its continuing series of Haydn string quartets.
Alongside his work with the Doric, John performs widely as a solo cellist and chamber musician. In 2006 he won the Gold Medal and First Prize at the Royal Overseas League Music Competition. He is also active as a baroque cellist and has appeared with groups including La Nuova Musica and La Serenissima.
Away from the concert stage John is a dedicated teacher and mentor. He is Professor of cello and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music, London and gives string quartet masterclasses as part of Chamber Studio at King’s Place in London. John performs on a 1587 Brothers Amati cello.