The FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET
Newsletter and Concert Schedule
Issue 1, October 2010

We hope to keep you up to date once or twice a year with a newsletter about our upcoming concerts and recordings. For more details, view our website at: www.fitzwilliamquartet.org/
or contact Heather Tuach at htuach@hotmail.com
Feel free to get in touch- even it's to request being removed from our list!

CONCERTS
Here is a list of upcoming FSQ concerts for Autumn 2010 and early 2011. Keep an eye on our website for updates.

November 21: HELMSLEY Arts Centre, N. Yorkshire
Elgar Piano Quintet and Mozart K.414 with pianist Anna Tilbrook

November 28: LONDON, Conway Hall at 6:30pm
Conway Hall Sunday Concerts.
Music by Mozart, Shostakovich, Glazunov and Beethoven

December 5: BIRMINGHAM Conservatoire at 3:00pm
Birmingham Chamber Music Society. Music by Haydn, Mozart, Liz Johnson Fantasia Premiere 'Forty-something', and Shostakovich.

Feb 19 2011: LONDON, King's Place
Grainger 50th anniversary event

March 16 2011: DONCASTER Museum at 1:00pm
Lunchtime concert to include Schubert Death and the Maiden

April 7 2011: LONDON, Music in the Village, St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow at 7:30pm
www.walthamsoft.com/villagemusic
Music by Barber, Delius, Jackson Hill, Schubert

April 15 2011: NEWTON ABBOTT
Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts
Music by Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich and Dvorak

May 8 2011: IFFLEY, Oxford, St. Mary's Church at 8:00pm
Haydn Seven Last Words, Vaughan Williams Quartet no. 2, Jackson Hill Fantasy, Schubert Death and the Maiden

May 15 2011: LONDON, Sutton House Music Society
Elgar Piano Quintet with Pianist Penelope Roskell, Vaughan Williams Quartet No. 2
http://www.shms.org.uk

May 22 2011: FONTMELL MAGNA Church, Dorset at 3:00pm
Percy Grainger 50th Anniversary Celebration
To include Elgar Piano Quintet with Penelope Thwaites Jackson

June 6 2011: MUSIC IN ALLENDALE
Music by Barber, Shostakovich, Jack Hill, and Haydn

July 24 2011: CHURCH STRETTON FESTIVAL
Concert to include music by Grainger, Delius, Shostakovich

November 3 2011: GATEHOUSE OF FLEET

November 10 2011: NOTTINGHAM and Haydn

RECORDINGS
It is going to be a busy year with three CD recordings in the works.

The first is a two-CD set of the complete quartets by the eminent Geologist and composer, John Ramsey. The four quartets will be recorded by Philip Hobbs and released on the Divine Art label.

The second CD is a collaboration with jazz saxophonist and composer Uwe Steinmetz. This will be our second CD with Uwe, the first entitled 'Stations on the Road to Freedom' (2005). The CAUX QUINTET (FSQ + Steinmetz) will be recording a mixture of new compositions by Steinmetz, and improvisations on works from the Baroque period including Purcell Fantasias and selections from Bach's Art of Fugue. To learn more about Uwe, or to hear tracks from his recent CDs, check out his website at http://www.u-musik.us You can hear samples of the Caux Quintet, taken from past performances, by clicking on 'u-musik' and selecting 'Caux Quintet.' If you would like to help with this recording, we would be extremely grateful for donations of any amount!!

Last but not least, we will record the Bruckner String Quintet and Intermezzo with Jonathan's sister, violist Carolyn Sparey and also the Bruckner String Quartet. This CD will be recorded by Philip Hobbs and released on the Linn Records label.

All of our previous CDs are available for sale directly through the FSQ. Some of our more popular CDs include Haydn Seven Last Words from the Cross, Op. 51, the Brahms clarinet quintet with Lesley Schatzberger (playing on a copy of the instrument the work was composed for), the historic first recording of Shostakovich's complete String Quartets, and Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge with James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook. You can view more CDs on our website. To order, please contact Heather Tuach at htuach@hotmail.com or 07891 558252.

The Fitzwillian String Quartet is managed by Rayfield Artists
http://www.rayfieldartists.com/
Andrew@rayfieldartists.com