• Introduction
• The Concerts
• Practicalities
• Booking

The London Haydn Quartet
Margaret Faultless violin Catherine Manson violin James Boyd viola Jonathan Cohen cello

The London Haydn Quartet was originally born out of a passion for Haydn's string quartets and play on gut strings with classical bows. The quartet has received invitations to many of the most important concert series in the UK, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland. ‘They were 
exceptional... This was superlative Haydn, present in all his many colours.’ The Strad magazine

The Endellion Quartet
Andrew Watkinson violin Ralph de Souza violin Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello

Formed in 1979, the Endellion String Quartet is renowned as one of the finest quartets in the world, captivating concertgoers with a remarkable rapport, ‘playing to each other with a sense almost of discovery, communicating to the audience on a level of unusual intimacy’ (The Guardian). ‘In music of the Viennese Classical composers it has few challengers’ (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2000).

The Tokyo String Quartet
Martin Beaver violin Kikuei Ikeda violin Kazuhide Isomura viola Clive Greensmith cello

Officially formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music, the Tokyo String Quartet has collaborated with a remarkable array of artists and composers, built a comprehensive catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings and established a distinguished teaching record. Performing over a hundred concerts worldwide each season, the Quartet has a devoted international following and has been quartet-in-residence at Yale School of Music since 1976.