DORIC STRING QUARTET

Alex Redington 1st violin
Jonathan Stone 2nd violin
Simon Tandree viola
John Myerscough cello

First prize-winners of the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, the Doric String Quartet is fast emerging as one of the outstanding quartets of their generation. Now in its 11th season the Quartet regularly performs at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as abroad in Europe and Asia. Highlights over the last year have included debut concerts in Germany (Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Israel (Tel Aviv), Switzerland and France, a BBC Radio 3 recording, collaborations with Piers Lane and Melvyn Tan, masterclasses with Gyorgy Kurtag and the closing concert in the Wigmore Hall season. The Quartet was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2006.

During 2008/09 the Quartet appear four times at Wigmore Hall including a recital in the hall’s Haydn celebrations alongside such groups as the Arcanto, Hagen and Mosaiques Quartets and a concert with Mark Padmore and Julius Drake. They also make their debut at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, tour throughout Japan and return to Germany, Israel and South East Asia.

Formed in 1998 at Pro Corda, The National School for Young Chamber Music Players, in Suffolk, since 2002 the Doric String Quartet have been studying on the Paris-based ProQuartet Professional Training Program, where they have worked with members of the Alban Berg, Artemis, Hagen and LaSalle Quartets. The Quartet continue to study with Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and Walter Levin (LaSalle Quaurtet) at the Music Academy in Basel.

In 2000 the Doric String Quartet won the inaugural Bristol Millennium Chamber Music Competition. They were subsequently made “Artists in Residence” at the Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon where they combine a concert series with education work involving local primary schools. The Quartet made their Purcell Room debut in 2001 in a Park Lane Group concert and since then have appeared regularly at Wigmore Hall including concerts with Michael Collins and Catherine Wyn-Rogers with whom they gave the premiere of a new work by Gordon Kerry. They made their Edinburgh Festival debut in 2006 and have given recitals in the Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti series in Naples, and at the ORF (Austrian Radio) Funkhaus in Vienna.

Alex Redington and Jonathan Stone completed their postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in 2005 where they studied with Howard Davis. Simon Tandree studied in Saarbrücken and Detmold with Dietmut Poppen. John Myerscough graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge in 2003 and is now a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studies with Louise Hopkins.

The Doric String Quartet acknowledges the generous support of an Anonymous Foundation.