— Sarah Urwin Jones, BBC Music Magazine
— Tully Potter about our disc Love and Death, Nov. 2020
The London based Navarra Quartet has built an international reputation as one of the most dynamic and poetic string quartets of today. Selected for representation by YCAT (2006-10), they have been awarded the MIDEM Classique Young Artist Award, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, a Musica Viva tour, and prizes at the Banff, Melbourne and Florence International String Quartet Competitions.
The Navarra Quartet appears regularly at major venues throughout the world including the Wigmore Hall, Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, the Sydney Opera House, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Esterházy Palace, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Lincoln Centre and international festivals such as Lockenhaus, Aldeburgh, Bath, Lammermuir, Presteigne, Bergen, Grachten, Sandviken, Schwetzinger, Rheingau, Heidelberg, Aix-en-Provence, Bellerive, Harrogate Chamber Music and the BBC Proms.
Looking forward to the new season, the Navarra Quartet will be touring to Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and their festival in Weesp (Holland) focusing on eclectic repertoires containing Mozart, Bartok and Dvorak quartets as well as new commissions dedicated to the group. Navarra Quartet will be recording Edward Gregson’s complete chamber music for strings and the first volume of the Mozart Celebrated String Quartets.
The Navarra Quartet would like to express a great debt of gratitude to the Kersjes Foundation for their generous prize, to their agency Rayfield Allied for their continuous support and to all their followers and audience whom they welcome wholeheartedly to the upcoming concerts.
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The Kirker Music Festival,
Tenerife
with Benjamin Appl, Simon Rowland-Jones & Tim Horton
Tivoli Vredenberg,
Utrecht, Holland
Mozart: K.465
Brahms: Op.51 No.2
Repertoire includes:
Brahms Op.67
Tchaikovsky movement in B Flat
Prokofiev Overture with Katya Apekisheva
Rowland-Jones flute quartet
WORLD PREMIERE with Adam Walker
Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Matthew Hunt
Ravel Introduction & Allegro with Anneleen Lenaerts
Mozart K.515 with Simon Rowland-Jones
Martin Randall Music Festival,
Taunton
Repertoire includes:
Mozart Quartets K.387, K.421, K.428, K.465,
Haydn Op.50 no.5, Szymanowski Op.37, Dvorak Cypressen, Dvorak Op.106, Enescu Aubade, Tchaikovsky Movement in B Flat, Jane O’Leary, The Passing Sound of Forever
Kings Place, London,
UK
Mozart K.428
Tchaikovsky Movement in B Flat
Jane O’Leary The Passing Sound of Forever
Dvorak String Quartet No. 13 in G, Op. 106
The Wasteland 2022 Festival,
St. Vedast Chapel, London, UK
Fragments - 100 years of slow movements Repertoire to include: Ravel, Shostakovich, O’Leary, Ades, Shaw, Part, Kurtag, Szymanowski & Barber
Premiere: Alissa Firsova Quartet
Bob Boas, London, UK
Recording for Alissa Firsova
More details to be announced.
Faure La Bonne Chanson & Dvorak Op.77 with Mark Padmore, Julius Drake & Leon Bosch
Spinacorona Festival
Napoli, Italy
Vasks 5
Fidelio Cafe,
London, UK
Repertoire to be announced
Oxford Lieder Festival - BBC Radio Lunchtime Concert
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge & World Premiere of Ian Venables songs for tenor, piano & string quartet with Will Vann & Alessandro Fischer
Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK
Elgar Day - Elgar Quintet with Alexandra Dariescu
To be announced
Scotland Tour
Repertoire to be announced
West Wicklow Festival, Ireland
with Fiachra Garvey
