Described as one who plays with “both exuberance and quiet lyrical charm” by Classical Source and as “someone who makes it all look so easy” by The Strad, Alex Redington is the first violinist and a founder member of the critically acclaimed Doric String Quartet.

Alex has performed extensively as a recitalist and concerto soloist. Solo appreances include perfomances with the Vienna Symphony, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish and BBC symphony orchestras with conducters Markus Stenz, John Adams, Peter Oundjian and Edward Gardener. His passion for chamber music has led to collaborations with Benjamin Grosvenor, Jonathan Biss, Peter Wispleway, Alexander Melnikov and Marc Andre Hamelin. He has performed at many of the worlds leading venues including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Carnegie hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Suntory Hall and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie as well as touring extensively through Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA.

Since 2010 Alex has recorded exclusively for Chandos as a member of the Doric Quartet. Their recordings have frequently been selected as Editors choice in Gramophone and Chamber choice in the BBC Music Magazine. Their recordings of Haydn draw particular acclaim including a shortlisting for a Gramophone award.

Alongside his performing career, Alex is a committed teacher, having held faculty positions at the Royal Academy of Music, the Yehudi Menuhin School and the University of Cambridge. He plays on a Violin by Paulo Castello made in Genoa circa 1780.

Quartet Concrète formed at the Guildhall School in 2021 and throughout their time together they have earned praise for their natural chemistry, well blended sound and colourful atmospheres.

The quartet were winners of the 2023 St James’ Chamber Music Competition and have performed at venues across Europe, including the Barbican, St James’ Piccadilly, Holker Hall, and Cité Musicalé Metz. In 2023, they were selected to be part of Chamber Studio’s Hans Keller Chamber Forum, receiving mentorship from John Myerscough, Alasdair Beatson and Richard Ireland in three residencies across the 2023/24 season. In summer 2024, they were a resident string quartet at the Lake District Music Summer Festival where they gave numerous recitals as well as performing alongside Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch and the Alkyona Quartet. Whilst there, they also received coaching and masterclasses from the Brodsky and Heath Quartets.

Quartet Concrète are also keen educators themselves, and have worked at both GYA King’s Cross and on the GSMD Summer Courses. Quartet Concrète champion the works of contemporary and young composers. As recent participants of Quatour Diotima’s “L’Académie Diotima”, they performed a new work by Arnau Gran i Romero, “À vif”, and Donnacha Dennehy’s, “The Weather of It”, at the Cité Musicale Metz. Their success on this academy has led to a future performance at the Opéra national du Rhin in April 2026. Other influential masterclasses and mentorships have included sessions with András Keller, David Waterman, Candida Thompson, Robert Levin and Johannes Meissl to name a few.

Quartet Concrète also collaborate across genres, including recording string arrangements, as well an ongoing partnership with Ballet Nights where they showcase the string quartet repertoire alongside classical and contemporary ballet. They have also worked with the NEST, and most recently collaborated on: Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven, a play by Tama Matheson at Opera Holland Park 2025, working alongside Jayson Gillham as music director. The music received much critical acclaim: “Quartet Concrète delivered exquisite interpretations of Beethoven’s chamber works” – London Theatre Reviews.

Amongst other music collaborations, concerts and recitals are at the core of what Quartet Concrète do. They have performed internationally, as well as across London and the UK, bringing their programmes to a wide range of audiences. Quartet Concrète also love to perform works not traditionally written for string quartet, arranged by their violist, Dominic Stokes. Recent arrangements include: Bach’s “Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh” and Paul Mealor’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, which they performed at various concerts around the UK in Summer 2025.