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Sunday Concerts at Conway Hall: Kyan Quartet
London, Conway Hall — Main Hall
About the Event
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 prelude to two ‘classics’ of the repertoire.
Past, present and future – Caroline Shaw’s music is often inspired by the music of the past, a big feature of her musical education 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.
Programm:
Caroline Shaw | Valencia
Schumann | Quartet in A Op.41/3
Caroline Shaw | Entr’acte
Beethoven | Quartet in E minor ‘Razumovsky’ Op.59/2
Cast / Production
Naomi Warburton • violin
Sydney Grace Mariano • violin
Wanshu Qiu • viola
Simon Guémy • cello
Address
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom — Google Maps
