Winners of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and the Tunnell Trust Award 2010/2011, the Piatti String Quartet are fast emerging as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets. Recently selected as Junior Fellows at the Royal Academy of music and chosen for the Park Lane Group young artist series, the Piatti Quartet had their Purcell room debut in October 2009 as part of the Peter Maxwell Davis ‘Naxos’ quartet series, returned there again in January 2010 and are looking forward to their third visit in May 2011. They have performed live on BBC Radio 3 twice, on the ever-popular ‘In Tune’ programme and have been consecutive finalists at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. In June 2010, the Piatti String Quartet launched the ‘Piatti Chamber Music Festival at Kingsand’ Cornwall with great success and in February 2011 are looking forward to their Wigmore and Conway Hall debuts. 2011 will also see the Piatti Quartet extensively touring the British music scene as part of both the prestigious Countess of Munster and the Making Music recital schemes, as well as some very exciting collaboration projects with Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch and clarinetist Emma Johnson.
The Quartet has previously played throughout the UK at various venues and festivals including the Purcell Room, 
Royal Festival Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St James Piccadilly and the National Gallery. The Quartet members are all past and current award-winning students from the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music and have studied with members of the Amadeus Quartet, Chilingirian Quartet, Alban Berg Quartet, Keller Quartet, Maggini Quartet, Vellinger Quartet, Brodsky Quartet, Artis Quartet and with Jon Thorne. In 2009 they received the MBF Ensemble Award to attend the International Sommerakademie Prague/Vienna/Budapest where they performed extensively throughout Austria in venues including Brahms House and the Schloss Rothschild castle. During 2009/10 they also attended Pro Quartet In France with Walter Levine and The London String Quartet Foundations Symposium where they studied with members form the Takacs Quartet, Vermeer Quartet and Endellion Quartet. 2011 will see the Quartet studying on a full Scholarship with Gunter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the International Institute of Chamber Music Of Madrid.
The Piatti Quartet is extremely grateful for the generosity and support of the Nicolas Boas Charitable Trust, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Concordia Foundation and Ian Ellis.
