John Myerscough

John Myerscough leads a busy international career as the cellist of the Doric String Quartet. Regular visitors to 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. The Quartet performs at major concert halls throughout Europe including Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus and Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Auditorium du Louvre, Paris. It tours annually to the USA performing in the most important halls and cities, including Carnegie Hall, New York City, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, Library of Congress, Washington D. C., and has recently undertaken tours to Australia and Japan. The Quartet also has a busy festival schedule and has performed at the Aldeburgh, Delft, Edinburgh, Lofoten, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Risør, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and West Cork festivals. 

Alongside his work with the Doric, John performs widely as a solo cellist and chamber musician. Since 2018 he has been a faculty member at the Yellow Barn festival in Vermont, USA. In chamber music settings he has collaborated with Nicolas Altstaedt, Alasdair Beatson, Jonathan Biss, Pavel Kolesnikov, Vilde Frang, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Anthony Marwood and Lawrence Power, amongst others. He is also active as a baroque cellist and has appeared with groups including Arcangelo, 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, where the Quartet holds the position of ‘Teaching Quartet in Association’. He also gives masterclasses for the London-based ChamberStudio and for the ProQuartet Professional Training Programme for String Quartets in France.  

John performs on a 1587 Brothers Amati cello.