Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 8th December 2024
6:30 PM

Programme

Caroline Shaw – Valencia
Robert Schumann – String Quartet in A major, Op.41 no.3
Caroline Shaw – Entr'acte
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in E minor 'Razumovsky', Op.59 no.2

Performers

Kyan String Quartet

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Programme Note

Established in 2020, the award-winning Kyan Quartet brings together four exceptional musicians from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and France. The quartet enjoys a busy and vibrant career, having performed across Europe and Asia. Recent highlights include winning the Richmond Concert Society String Ensemble Award at the 2024 Royal Over-Seas League competition, and undertaking a three-week tour throughout China. As upcoming Tunnell Trust award holders, the quartet will tour across Scotland in February 2025.

For another Conway Hall debut this season, the quartet begin each half with a short work by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, as a a prelude to two ‘classics’ of the repertoire.

“The ebullient Kyans are certainly a foursome to watch out for in the near future.” — Planet Hugill

Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill at 17.30:

Past, present and future – Caroline Shaw’s music is often inspired by the music of the past, a big feature of her musical eduction growing up, whilst Robert Schumann studied the quartets of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven before writing his, at times writing music which looked forward to Brahms and further. Beethoven’s quartets were the bedrock on which later composers built, yet when his Razumovsky quartets were first published they were received with uncertainty as their content and emotional range was beyond anything written so far.