We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! We finished 2012 with an evening recital at Wigmore Hall in London and have started 2013 with a very positive review in The Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/03b5b998-5331-11e2-9e71-00144feab49a.html#axzz2GoWGTZ70

We are delighted to be able to announce two new local mangers for the Quartet. We have been taken on by Paloma Viana whose agency La Mascara de Orfeo (http://www.lamascaradeorfeo.com/) will represent the quartet in Spain. We have also been signed by Shannen Liu of Liu ProMotion (http://www.liupromotion.com/) who will represent the quartet in the Far East with a particular emphasis on China and Taiwan.

We have just heard that our 2011 recording of the complete Schumann Quartets has been nominated for a 2012 Gramophone Award in the Chamber category! We are extremely excited about this and follows on from the disk being the first ever recording to be chosen as disk of the month in both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. For more details please read here: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2012/chamber

Our concerts page is now fully updated with details of the 12/13 season. Browse away at the exciting concerts that await us!

This week sees the release of our latest recording for Chandos Records and our first collaborative disk. We make a return to the chamber music of Korngold to record his Piano Quintet and String Sextet. We are joined on this disk by three great friends and colleagues – Kathy Stott (piano), Jennifer Stumm (viola) and Bartholomew Lafollette (cello).

To listen to a sample and to purchase the recording click here: http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010707

Our latest recording for Chandos Records of the Schumann String Quartets has already received some great reviews and press attention.
It has been chosen as Disk of the Month in the December 2011 editions of both BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone Magazine thus becoming the first recording to have ever received both accolades!
It was also selected as one of BBC Radio 3′s Critics’ Choice recordings of 2011

Read full reveiws on the press page.

On Monday 26th September our latest recording for Chandos Records was released. This features the complete Schumann String Quartets (opus 41). You can purchase it online from many retailers or download it from itunes or from Chandos directly by following this link: http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%2010692

Our recording of the Walton String Quartets (released earlier this year) has been nominated for a 2011 Gramophone Award in the Chamber Music category. We are delighted to have been nominated for this award and thrilled that this recording, particularly of the early and unknown String Quartet, has been so well received across the press. To listen to clips of the Walton CD click on the album cover here: http://www.doricstringquartet.com/music

We are delighted to announce that we have just been signed for local management in France by Satirino Classical Music Agency where we will be represented by Ian Malkin. For more information please visit: http://www.satirino.fr
Satirino join our big list of local management agencies that include London (Sulivan Sweetland – General Management), Berlin (EAS Musikmanagement), Copenhagen (Crescendi/Tivoli Artists), Amsterdam (KAMconcerten) and New York (William Reinert Associates inc.).

Back in July we returned to the recording studio to record our fourth CD for Chandos Records. We also returned to the music of Korngold with his Piano Quintet and String Sextet. This was a very exciting recording period as we were joined by three great friends and colleagues  - Kathy Stott (piano), Jennifer Stumm (viola) and Bartholomew Lafollette (cello). We hope that the success that our recording of Korngold’s Quartets has had will also come to this new recording. These are two masterpieces that deserve to be heard more often. The CD will be released in early 2012.