classical music, chamber music, liverpool, merseyside, concerts
Monday 10 March 2008 7.30pm Navarra String Quartet
Haydn Quartet in G, Op.33 No.5Beethoven Quartet No.1, Op.18 No.1
Schubert Quartet in A minor, D.804
Winners of the 2005 Florence International Chamber Music Competition, the Navarra String Quartet are fast emerging as one of the outstanding quartets of their generation. Formed in September 2002 under the guidance of the Director of Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, Dr Christopher Rowland, the quartet consists of three Dutch members and one British member.
In September 2003, the Navarra Quartet represented the RNCM at the International Music Festival at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. They have subsequently given recitals in the UK, The Netherlands, and the USA, including highly acclaimed performances as part of the 2003 RNCM Mendelssohn Festival, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, the 2004 QuartetFest (RNCM), the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the 2005 Brahms- Schumann Festival, the Lake District Summer Music Festival (2005) and SovietFest in Manchester (2006). More recently they participated in the Lincoln International Haydn Festival, playing alongside quartets such as the Quatour Mosaiques and the London Haydn Quartet. In February/ March 2006 the Navarra Quartet were resident at the Britten Pears School in Aldeburgh and have been invited to return in 2007.
- Xander Van Vliet (violin)
- Marije Ploemacher (violin)
- Simon van der Giessen (viola)
- Nathaniel Boyd (cello)
