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• Acoustic Triange Tour - Three Dimensions

    Dear Friends, We're writing to let you know about an exciting tour we are taking part in this year! We are joining forces with Acoustic Triangle (Tim Garland on saxophon...

• Post Sacconi Festival

  Dear Friends, It is now a couple of days since the first Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone and we are slowly coming back down to earth. For those of you who were able to come, I hope you agree that it was an enormous success on many fronts. The sun shone kindly on us for...

• Acoustic Triangle album

  We've just got back from recording a disc with the amazing trio Acoustic Triangle. We spent four idylic days near Ambleside in the Lake District, recording pieces by trio members Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock. It will be a stunning disc and will available to buy after all the tour concerts we ha...

• Festival Launch!

  A week ago today, we gave the Sacconi Festival launch concert in St Mary and St Eanswyth's Church in Folkestone (pictured). We had a great audience, and for the last item in the concert, we were joined on the stage by G...

• Alun Hoddinott

  It is sad to note the recent death of the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott. The night before he died, we gave the world premiere of his final string quartet in the Wigmore Hall. We feel deeply sad that he couldn't be there to hear it, but feel honoured to have given what must have been the last perf...

• Newsletter, Spring 2008

  Dear Friends, For us, the members of the Sacconi Quartet, the focal point of this year will be the launch of our very own festival, which we feel very privileged to be able to begin. It really wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for all of you who are generously supporting ...

• Sacconis Play in Repton - To Ground Shaking Success

  It is indisputable that music is a powerful force. It will however, be difficult to prove that the earthquake, felt in a lot of the UK last night was a direct result of the Sacconi and Navarra Quartet playing just a few miles from the epicentre. Mendelssohn’s Octet is certain...

• Sacconi Newsletter, Spring 2008

  Dear Friends, For us, the members of the Sacconi Quartet, the focal point of this year will be the launch of our very own festival, which we feel very privileged to be able to begin. It really wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for all of you who are generously supporting ...

• Post Wigmore and Bridgewater

  If you managed to come to either our Wigmore or Bridgewater Hall concerts, thank you... We hope you enjoyed them, we had a lot of fun! It's been exhilarating for us performing in two major venues back to back. We're staying up in Manchester now to rehearse with the Navarra Quartet, with whom we'r...

• Wigmore and Bridgewater Hall concerts - 5 & 6 February, 6 March

  Hello to you all! Firstly, we'd like to invite you to our Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert, taking place this Tuesday, 5th February at 1.00pm. Please come along - it's free! - and bring as many friends as you can! (Phone YCAT on 0207 3798477 for free tickets.)...