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Piatti Quartet

Piatti Quartet

 

Winners of the St Martins-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition and the Martin Musical/Philharmonia Scholarship Fund 2010, the Piatti Quartet is fast emerging as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets. Previous recipients of the Tunnell Trust Award and selected as Park Lane Group Young Artists in 2009/10, more recent news includes a second year as Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and winning the St Peter’s Eaton Square Prize 2011.

Since 2009 they have performed at the Purcell Room, Southbank, and live on BBC Radio 3 numerous times. Over the last year, they have enjoyed several very exciting collaboration projects with Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch and clarinettists Emma Johnson and Sarah Williamson as well as a successful second year of its very own ‘Piatti Chamber Music Festival at Kingsand’.

The Quartet has gained much musical inspiration from many great quartet musicians and particular influences include members of the Amadeus, Alban Berg, and Artis quartets, Alasdair Tait and Jon Thorne. In 2009 they received the MBF Ensemble Award to attend the International Sommerakademie Prague/Vienna/Budapest where they performed throughout Austria.

2011/12 will see the Quartet return to Madrid, studying on a full scholarship with Günther Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet at the International Institute of Chamber Music in Madrid, and study with Johannes Meissl of the Artis Quartet Vienna, with the support of the Hattori Foundation.