Friday 27 January 2012

Piatti Quartet

Charlotte Scott	Violin
Michael Trainor	Violin
David Wigram	Viola
Jessie Richardson	Cello

Programme

Haydn	String Quartet Opus 76 No 3
Debussy	String Quartet Opus10
Bartók	String Quartet No 3
Smetana	String Quartet No1 in E minor ‘From my life’

(Click image to enlarge) The Piatti Quartet - winners of the St. Martins in the Fields Chamber Music Competition and the Martin Musical/Philharmonia Scholarship Fund 2010 - are fast emerging as one of the UK’s leading young string quartets.

Since 2009 they have performed at the Purcell room, Southbank, and live on BBC Radio 3 numerous times. The Piatti Quartet had their Wigmore Hall debut in February 2011 and are looking forward to returning there in April 2012. This year and next will see the quartet extensively touring the British music scene as part of both the prestigious Countess of Munster and the Making Music recital schemes and taking part in both the Melbourne and Geneva International String Quartet Competitions 2011.

Charlotte Scott studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music under Mateja Marinkovic and Marianne Thorsen. In 2003, she won a full scholarship to spend 6 months studying in Boston at the New England Conservatory. Charlotte is in great demand as a chamber musician and soloist and has performed a number of concertos around the UK; next season she is due to play the Brahms and Barber concertos.

Michael Trainor has extensively performed as soloist with orchestra around Northeast America. He has frequently broadcast on RTE and BBC Radio. At 22, Michael spent nearly a season standing in as leader of the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin. He has had several teachers between the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music including Yuri Zhislin, Natalia Lomeiko, David Juritz, Tomatada Soh and Dona Lee Croft. He is currently studying privately with Anthony Marwood and plans to study with Gerhard Schulz in Vienna.

David Wigram studied viola and saxophone at the Royal College of Music. He studied viola with Jonathon Barritt, Jon Thorne and Ivo-Jan van der Werff. David led the viola sections of both the RCM Sinfonietta and the RCM Symphony Orchestra. As a saxophonist, David has been a regular member of the swing band ‘Five Star Swing’.

Jessie Ann Richardson joined the Purcell School in 2000 where she studied with Alexander Boyarsky. While there, she performed in the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, on Malta and on the east coast of the USA. She then studied at the Royal Academy of Music, with David Strange and Moray Welsh  Jessie continued her studies with Lluis Claret in Barcelona. She was a Park Lane Group Young Artist in the 2011 series, which led to her Purcell Room debut last January.

‘The prize for poise, blended tone and general lustre was ultimately won by the Piatti String Quartet’. The Times.

Listen to The Piatti Quartet playing the first movement from Haydn's String Quartet in G major, Op 76 No 1. Recorded live by ABC Radio at the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition 11th July 2011.

The Piatti Quartet is extremely grateful for the generosity and support of Ian Ellis, the Nicolas Boas Charitable Trust, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Hattori Foundation the Concordia Foundation and the Park Lane Group.

Visit The Piatti Quartet's website.