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• An afternoon to remember at the 2010 Kings Place Festival

  A very big thanks to everyone who came to support the Sacconi Quartet at the Kings Place concerts on Sunday 12th September 2010. It was a fantastic afternoon of three great piano quintets in separate concerts, with pianist Simon Crawford-Philips. They received a wonderful reaction from the packed-ou...

• Sacconi Quartet with the Southbank Sinfonia at Wigmore Hall

  The Sacconi Quartet will be joining the fantastic Southbank Sinfonia on stage at the Wigmore Hall on 6th October 2010. The Quartet will be performing Elgar's emotive Introduction and Allegro for strings with members of the Orchestra as part of the Southbank Sinfonia's annual showcase concert. ...

• New String Quartet by Timothy Salter

  We are very pleased to announce we will be returning to Concerts at Cratfield in July 2011 to give the first performance of the new String Quartet No.3 by British composer, Timothy Salter. This Quartet has been specially comissioned by Blyth Valley Chamber Music, with generous support from The Radcl...

• The Musical Brain Conference: Schumann: the Man, the Mind and the Music

  The Sacconi Quartet are pleased to announce that we will be performing at the Musical Brain’s 2010 weekend conference, Robert Schumann: The Man, the Mind and the Music, at St John's Smith Square, London, 2nd-3rd October.   The two-day event celebrates Robe...

• 6th - 8th May Sacconi Festival 2011!

    Sacconi Chamber Music Festival Folkestone 2011   6th – 8th May   With a programme including Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart and some very special guest performers you will not want to miss out! So get these dates in the diary now! www.sacconi....

• Guardian review of Gwilym Simcock premiere

  On Saturday 3 July, we premiered a new piano quintet, written specially for us, by Gwilym Simcock on the opening weekend of the 2010 Cheltenham Festival. It was a great concert and we really enjoyed performing the new piece. There was a journalist from the Guardian there, who has praised the concert...

• The Art of Neil Canning

  Neil Canning, the wonderful artist, based in St Ives, created the 'Sacconi Suite' of images which we have the priviledge to use on the discs released on Sacconi Records. The intense colour and dynamic forms of Neil Canning's paintings make his work instantly recognisable. Dramatic moments in nature...

• Sacconi Canterbury Concert in aid of St Gregory's Project

    Friday 18th June, 7.30pm Augustines House, Canterbury CT1 2YA with guest cellist Melissa Phelps This is a fundraising concert organised by Canterbury Music Club, Whitstable Music Society and Music in St Peter's in support of the St Gregory's Developm...

• Radio 4 Debut!

  Yesterday, we played live on Radio 4's PM programme, on an article to do with music and the brain. Compared to the calm studio we play in for In Tune on Radio 3, this was packed and fast paced! (they had to move all the election paraphernalia from the corner so we could fit in... It's the same studi...

• Sacconi Quartet on In Tune

  Ahead of the eagerly awaited Sacconi Chamber Music Festival that starts on Friday (14 May), the Sacconi Quartet will be be appearing on BBC Radio 3's In Tune on Wednesday 12 May at 6.15pm. The Quartet will be performing three pieces live on air, which will be movements from works that will feature ...

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