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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.