Garfield Jackson coaches the Treske Quartet
Princess Alexandra Hall, ROSL
Beethoven: String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 18 No. 6
O’Halloran: Dying is a Wild Night by Emma
Caro: La Candela
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Oliver Baily - 1st violin
Mollie Wrafter - 2nd violin
Abigail Hammett - viola
Louis Baily - cello
The Treske Quartet is an emerging ensemble based in Manchester, UK. Founded in 2017, their programmes contain a combination of classical quartet repertoire and contemporary compositions. The quartet are currently pursuing the RNCM Chamber Studio course as well as Chamber Studio at King’s Place. They are the ‘Young Artists 2022’ at the Kensington Olympia Festival of Music and the Arts and over the past two years the quartet has given recitals in the UK and abroad, notably the Ryedale Festival, Wye Valley Summer Festival, Llandeilo International Music Festival, Royal Overseas League and New Generation Festival in Florence.
The quartet consists of Oliver Baily, Mollie Wrafter, Abigail Hammett and Robert Wheatley who all studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. They have received coaching from some of the world’s leading chamber musicians including the Chilingirian, Brodsky, Parker, Eybler, JACK, Elias, Dante and Navarro Quartets.
Passionate about contemporary and new music, the quartet enjoys collaborating with composers; performing and recording their work. Over the past two years, Treske has been working with Cumbria-based composer Edward Cowie and will be recording his 9th String Quartet and Double String Quartet in collaboration with the Kreutzer Quartet for the Divine Arts record label in the coming months. They have also collaborated with composer Claire Victoria Roberts on numerous chamber and vocal works. The quartet are in the midst of recording two CDs with classical guitarists Roland Chadwick and Daniela Rossi. The Treske Quartet recently travelled to the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity for the Evolution: Quartet programme, an innovative artist development programme for quartets and composers who are in the early stages of career development. Here, they established a positive working relationship with Puerto Rican composer, Gabriel Bouche Caro, and performed the premiere of his piece ‘La Candela’ in collaboration with the JACK Quartet.
Treske are called after the medieval name for the town of Thirsk in North Yorkshire, where Oliver grew up.
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Garfield Jackson has been a member of the Endellion String Quartet since its inception in 1979. The ensemble is resident at Cambridge University and gives regular high-profile series in London, for the BBC and in major centres around the world.
As a soloist, Garfield has appeared at the Southbank Centre, the Barbican and Wigmore Hall. He gave the first BBC broadcast of Hummel’s Potpouri with the Ulster Orchestra and recordings include Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola and Piano with Martin Roscoe for ASV Records.
As a chamber musician he is much in demand and has performed with many great international artists, including members of the Amadeus Quartet, Sandor Vegh, Steven Isserlis, Andras Schiff and Joshua Bell. He has appeared at Wigmore Hall in well over 100 concerts.
Garfield teaches viola at the Royal Academy of Music and in 2002 he was made a Fellow. For the last few years he has been actively involved in the Lake District Summer Music Festival and Summer School.