Bishop Auckland Music Society (BAMS) has announced its 2022 concert season, which will take place at Bishop Auckland Methodist Church on Cockton Hill Road, opposite the hospital.
The series of five concerts taking place from April to September features an early music ensemble, string quartet, piano trio, horn duo and pianist.
All are renowned young musicians in the UK and many internationally.
The first performance, on Friday 1 April at 7.30pm will be by the Barbican Quartet.
Winners of the 2019 Joseph Joachim International Chamber Music Competition as well as the 2018 St Martin in the Fields Chamber Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet are an emerging young quartet.
Hailing from four different countries and currently based in London, the quartet consists of violinists Amarins Wierdsma and James Dong, violist Christoph Slenczka and cellist Yoanna Prodanova.
They made their Wigmore Hall début in 2017 thanks to the Maisie Lewis Award, and were 2020 St John Smith Square Young Artists and 2016 Park Lane Group artists.
In 2018 the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded them the Albert and Eugenie Frost Prize.
The quartet has appeared in many international festivals and their performances have been broadcast on NPO Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3.
The Barbican Quartet is a part of the Chamber Music Academy with Guenter Pichler at the Reina Sofia String Quartet Academy in Madrid.
They are very grateful to the Dutch Instrument Foundation for Amarins’ Guadagnini violin and the Canimex Group (Canada) for Yoanna’s Gagliano cello.
The quartet’s programme on the evening will feature Haydn op. 77 no. 2; Martinu – String Quartet no. 3; Schubert – Quartetsatz and Brahms – String Quartet no. 2
Tickets on the door are priced at £16.
Advance tickets are £14 and available from Brotherton’s Music Shop, 205 Newgate Street or from the BAMS treasurer Brian Varley on 01388 606075 or 07415 092040.
Bishop Auckland's local community newspaper.
