Sacconi Quartet

This Autumn the Quartet tours the UK as part of the IMS Prussia Cove ensemble, working with Chloe Hanslip, Ian Brown and Christoph Richter. They go on to perform three complete cycles of the Mozart string quartets and quintets with Simon Rowland-Jones. Engagements during the season include return visits to Wigmore Hall (5 October and 27 November), concerts at Cadogan Hall (28 January), St. George's Bristol, the Canterbury, Bangor New Music and Lincoln Mozart Festivals. Abroad the Quartet appear at the St. Olav Festival in Trondheim, Norway and give recitals in Geneva, France and Italy.

Future plans include a series of concerts in Switzerland and a Haydn recital in the prestigious Liceo da Camara series in Madrid. Their recording of Finzi's song cycle By Footpath and Stile with baritone Roderick Watkins has just been released on NAXOS. The Sacconi Quartet hold the Leverhulme Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music. They pursue a keen interest in education work, collaborating with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, Live Music Now! and Wigmore Hall schemes, making regular visits to schools, hospitals and community venues.

The name Sacconi Quartet comes from the outstanding twentieth-century Italian violin maker and restorer Simone Sacconi, whose book The Secrets of Stradivari is considered an indispensable reference for violin makers.