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Dante Quartet
Krysia Osostowicz and Oscar Perks - violins, Yuko Inoue - viola, Richard Jenkinson - cello
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber music in 2007 and a BBC Music Magazine Award in 2009, the Dante Quartet is one of Britain's finest ensembles. Founded in 1995 at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, the quartet chose Dante's name to reflect the idea of a great journey. Renowned for its imaginative programming and emotionally charged performances, the Dante Quartet appears at the major UK festivals and music societies, broadcasts on Radio 3 and has also played in France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Poland and Finland. The quartet has made four highly acclaimed recordings for Hyperion, with more to follow. For the past seven years they were quartet-in-residence at King's College Cambridge, and now are also associated with Birmingham University. Plans for 2016 include a tour of Ireland and an entire Beethoven Cycle over one weekend. Launched in 2004, the Dante Summer Festival is a favourite part of the quartet's year, ideal for creating new musical projects, attracting young people to chamber music and building up a new audience in intimate and beautiful surroundings. www.dantequartet.org
Alinka Rowe (violist) attends the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music, where her teacher is Yuko Inoue. She currently holds the Principal Viola position in the National Youth Orchestra, playing this year at the Royal Festival Hall, the BBC Proms and in Berlin. She also plays in a variety of chamber groups including the prizewinning Ash Piano Quartet and the Quartz Quartet, which creates innovative shows with dancers. Alinka has just taken her GCSE's at Alleyn's School in London.
Elliott Perks is the violist of the Scottish-based Maxwell Quartet, and has performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician in venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Snape Maltings. He attended the Yehudi Menuhin School where his teachers were Suzie Meszaros, Rosemary Warren-Green and Lioutsia Ibragimova, and was then a foundation scholar at the Royal College of Music, studying with Andriy Viytovych. Recent engagements include performances of Viola Viola by George Benjamin in the Purcell Room and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Oliver Cave and the Audeat Camerata. Elliott is also popular as a teacher at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and runs 'Chance to Play', the Menuhin School's outreach project in local schools.
Méta Folk Band
Beáta Salamon (fiddle) Zoltán Bobár (viola), Attila Csávás (clarinet/bagpipes/accordion), Róbert Ferenc Liber (bass)
Méta is a pioneering folk band from Hungary founded in Pécs in 1983. Their exciting debut immediately won them national awards, and they have appeared in Europe and around the world – including Egypt, Turkey, the US, Japan, China and Korea. The band seeks to recreate the exuberant atmosphere of traditional Hungarian dance houses, and audiences always respond enthusiastically to their joyful playing. Méta has travelled widely throughout Eastern Europe researching the roots of traditional music: all their material comes from archive recordings made by composers such as Bartók and Kodály, and from their own collections. They also contribute to folk music education at schools and colleges, and organize professional courses and summer camps for children. Méta has made many recordings and also has a non-traditional side, collaborating with
theatre groups and experimental ensembles such as Heavy Méta. This is the band’s UK debut.
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