The Amaryllis Piano Trio formed in November 2009 during their first year at the Royal College of Music. They enjoy playing a wide range of repertoire covering periods from Haydn to Shostakovich and styles including Piazzolla’s Tango Nuevo. Outside of the concert hall the trio engages in outreach work; from school workshops to performing and [...]

Violin I – Gongbo Jiang, Violin II – Wen Wang, Viola – Hua Zhong, ‘Cello – Robert Anderson   The Aurea String Quartet (formerly the Cantabile String Quartet) was founded in 2010 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow. Their teachers include Geunther Pichler, David Watkin, Jackie Shave and the Brodsky Quartet. The Quartet [...]

Castalian String Quartet Winner of the 2011 Royal Overseas League Elias Fawcett Award for an outstanding chamber music ensemble, the Castalian String Quartet was formed in London in 2010 by multi-award winning graduates of the Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Academy of Music and Eastman School of Music, USA. They are rapidly gaining a [...]

The Cremona Piano Trio promises to be an exciting appearance on the British stage, equipped equally as they are with individual excellence and group synergy. This new collaboration began taking shape in 2011, with their first performance taking place in September 2011; Elaine Paine: “We were completely blown away by the concert – The Cremona [...]

The Gildas Quartet was formed in 2010 by Masters students at the Royal Northern College of Music. They are recent winners of a 2013 Tunnell Trust Concert Award and have accumulated numerous other prizes between them including the RNCM’s Weil and Hirsch prizes, most recently being awarded the prestigious Barbirolli Prize for String Quartet. The [...]

The Ismena ensemble which has at its crux a trio of soprano, cello and piano, was formed in 2008 and created a Collective in 2010, to expand the repertoire for voice with instrumental accompaniment and to develop performances with artists in different spheres. The trio has performed in a variety of styles (contemporary classical, musical theatre [...]

1st prize winners of the ‘Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition’, and the Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF ‘Charles Henderson Ensemble Award’, the Jubilee Quartet was formed in 2006 at the Royal Academy of Music, London, where they currently hold a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship. During this time, they were given instruction under professors such as Thomas [...]

The members of the Maxwell String Quartet all hail originally from Scotland, where they are now based. Having studied at various institutions including the Royal Northern College of Music, Guildhall School of Music, Sibelius Academy and Oxford University, the quartet was formed in 2010 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now Royal [...]

Originally founded as the Meridian Trio in 2009, the Meridian Piano Quartet is a 2011 merger of the trio with close friend and colleague Leo Nicholson (piano). The Meridian Piano Quartet was established for the performance of twentieth and twenty-first century repertoire, with a focus to promote emerging and established British composers. Violinist Akiko Ishikawa [...]

The Muse Piano Quintet was formed in September 2008. Since its first public performance the ensemble proved itself as a highly professional group. They have performed in many concert halls including recitals at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar room, St James Piccadilly, National Gallery, Britten Theatre, Royal Academy of Arts, Amarylis Fleming Concert Hall and [...]

Described as ‘exuberant and energetic’, the Palomino Quartet are a fresh and dynamic emerging talent in chamber music. Formed in 2011, the quartet comprises former members of Southbank Sinfonia from England, Ireland and New Zealand. They were recent finalists in the St Martin in the Fields Chamber Competition 2013 and the Ernest Bloch Music Competition [...]

The Pirani Trio was founded in 2006 by three postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The group aims not only to consolidate the standard Horn Trio repertoire but also to encourage new compositions and to explore less well-known Trios which have been rarely performed. All three members held scholarships at the [...]

  The Sedici Quartet comprises of Venetia Jollands, Magnus Steinum, Jordan Sian and Lucy Andrews, all of whom are studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. As well as performing regularly, they have had the opportunity to participate in lessons and masterclasses with members of the Alban Berg, Takacs, Endellion and Belcea quartets [...]

Trio Aquilon emerged from the Aquilon Ensemble, founded by Eulalie Charland and Maiko Mori in 2002. As a group with flexible instrumentation they performed throughout the UK, including the South Bank Centre for the Park Lane Group and took part in such projects as a recording of William Walton’s Sonata for Radio France broadcast, Le [...]