Arcadia String Quartet

Winner of the International Chamber Music Competition, Hamburg in 2009, International Chamber Music Competition, Almere in 2011, Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, London in 2012, and Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2014, the Arcadia Quartet is one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation. Formed in 2006, the Quartet has performed throughout the world, making appearances at the Budapest Spring Festival, George Enescu International Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, North Norfolk Music Festival, International Chamber Music Festival Q’arto Mondi, Poznań, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Kammermusiktage Mettlach, and Zeist Music Days, The Netherlands, as well as at the Cité Internationale des Arts and Salle Gaveau, Paris, Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Pollack Hall, Montreal, Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, London, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Izumi Hall, Osaka, Wiener Musikverein, Berliner Konzerthaus, and Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, in addition to venues throughout the United Kingdom, in Portugal, Tel Aviv, and Beijing. The Quartet is regularly heard on BBC Radio 3 and is Quartet-in-Residence at the prestigious Centrul Naţional de Artă Tinerimea Română, Bucharest, playing six concerts a year, broadcast by the Romanian Broadcasting Company. The Quartet issued its début CD, of works by Mendelssohn and Brahms, in 2009, a disc followed in October 2013 by a recording of Janáček’s quartets, both attracting critical acclaim. Under its new, exclusive recording contract with Chandos Records, the Arcadia Quartet in October 2018 released a recording of the six string quartets by Bartók. This double CD received five-star reviews in Diapason and Classica, was named Disc of the Week by BBC Radio 3, one of the best albums of October 2018 by WQXR-FM, in New York, and Disc of the Month by Classica in January 2019. In 2020 the Quartet launched a project to record the complete set of seventeen string quartets of Mieczysław Weinberg, issuing the first disc in January 2021. This was called one of ‘the best classical albums released in 2021 so far’ by BBC Music, named Record of the Week by BBC Radio 3, and listed among ‘Die Alben der Woche’ by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. It went on to win the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2021 and was a finalist of the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Volume 2 in the series reached the finals of the Limelight Recording of the Year 2022 and was nominated for the ICMA 2023.