Consone Quartet
Continuo Foundation grantee
Supported by Continuo Foundation
The first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists, the Consone Quartet are fast making a name for themselves with their honest and expressive interpretations of repertoire, notably from the classical and romantic eras.
Formed at the Royal College of Music in London, the Consone Quartet launched their professional career in 2015, shortly after which they were awarded two prizes at the 2015 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, including the EUBO Development Trust Prize and a place on the EEEmerging Scheme in France. They went on to win the 2016 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Prize, and in 2022 were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust (BBT) fellowship.
The quartet has been enthusiastically received at Londonâs major venues, as well as further afield in Poland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and Slovenia. Festival invitations include Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Dartington, Two Moors, Buxton, MA Festival in Bruges, Heidelberger Streichquartettfest and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany.
In 2024 the quartet returned to the English Haydn Festival and the York Early Music Festival, both of which are loyal supporters and regularly host the group. Consone are Artists-in-Residence at Paxton House (2023-2025) and at Saxon Shore Early Music Kenardington (2024-2027). Following tours of South America (2018) and Canada (2023) the quartet will return to North America in 2025 to perform both alone and in collaboration with fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout.
Last year the Consone Quartet premiered a new work for string sextet by Gavin Bryars, commissioned by friends of the Quartet, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and BBC Radio 3. The sextet, entitled âThe Bridges of Königsbergâ, was broadcast on Radio 3 in October 2023 from a concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields which was part of a tour supported by Continuo Foundation.
Education work remains a core interest to the group, having worked with students at the Royal College of Music in London, Chethamâs School of Music in Manchester, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Hans Keller fellows for 2020-2022. In 2024, Consone began a new partnership with the Frost Trust as âVisiting Quartetâ at Sheffieldâs Music in the Round.
The quartetâs debut recording explored music by Haydn and Mendelssohn and was described by The Strad as an album âthat instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special.â In Spring 2023 they released the first CD in a complete cycle of Mendelssohnâs string quartets with Linn Records. The album, featuring both the â1823â and Op. 44 No. 3 quartets, has been described as âtop-notchâ (Allmusic) and âexquisiteâ (Pizzicato).
Musicians
- Elitsa BogdanovaViola
- Agata DaraĆĄkaitÄViolin
- George RossCello
- Magdalena Loth-HillViolin
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Concerts
- Sat 26 October 2024
- St. Matthew's Church, Sheffield
- 2:00pm
- ÂŁ5-ÂŁ17
- Music in the Round
- Sat 26 October 2024
- Upper Chapel, Sheffield
- 7:00pm
- ÂŁ5-ÂŁ22
- Music in the Round
- Sun 10 November 2024
- Bridges Centre, Monmouth
- 3:00pm
- ÂŁ5-ÂŁ18
- Wye Valley Music
- Sun 17 November 2024
- Fellowship House
- 3:00pm
- ÂŁ12
- Sunday Afternoon Chamber Concert Series
- Wed 4 December 2024
- Burgh House
- 7:00pm
- ÂŁ15/28/38 (ÂŁ15 Under 30s), Vermeer Season Pass ÂŁ150
- Vermeer Chamber Concerts
- Sun 5 January 2025
- Wigmore Hall
- 11:30am
- ÂŁ16-ÂŁ18
- Early Music at Wigmore Hall
Past programmes
- Mon 21 October 2024
- Gannochy Trust Auditorium
- 1:00pm
- ÂŁ13.50-ÂŁ15
- Perth Concert Hall
- Sat 19 October 2024
- Tithe Barn, Syde Manor
- 4:00pm
- By donation
- Barnstorming!
- â1 other performance
- Thu 10 October 2024
- Marble Hall, Hatfield House
- 7:30pm
- ÂŁ19-ÂŁ38
- Hatfield House Music Festival
- Mon 30 September 2024
- The Studio, Hastings
- 7:30pm
- ÂŁ10-ÂŁ20
- Classical Series
- Fri 27 September 2024
- King's Lynn Town Hall
- 11:00am
- ÂŁ16 (under 25's 50% off)
- King's Lynn Festival
- Sun 22 September 2024
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
- 6:00pm
- ÂŁ10 - ÂŁ15 - ÂŁ20
- Baroquestock Festival
- Sat 21 September 2024
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
- 7:30pm
- ÂŁ10 - ÂŁ15 - ÂŁ20
- Baroquestock Festival
- Wed 18 September 2024
- Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead
- 7:30pm
- ÂŁ10 - ÂŁ15 - ÂŁ20
- Baroquestock Festival
- Sun 11 August 2024
- Kamermuziekzaal
- 11:30am
- âŹ4-âŹ20
- MA Festival Brugge
- Thu 8 August 2024
- Hurlands Barn, Dunsfold
- 8:00pm
- ÂŁ25
- Barnstorming!
- Sun 21 July 2024
- Picture Gallery, Paxton House
- 3:30pm
- ÂŁ26
- Music at Paxton