The London Haydn Quartet, with Erich Hoeprich
  Catherine Manson, violin

  Michael Gurevich, violin

  James Boyd, viola

  Richard Lester, violoncello

  Eric Hoeprich, clarinet (guest artist)

Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 8:00 pm

Sunday, February 5, 2012, at 3:00 pm

The program for both performances will be the same:

     Haydn Quartet in G Major, Op. 33, No. 5

     Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4

     Mozart Quintet in A Major for clarinet and strings, K. 581

The London Haydn Quartet was formed in response to its members’ devotion to Haydn's string quartets.

Playing with classical bows on instruments with gut strings, the ensemble has received invitations to many of the most important concert series in UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. In addition to this, they have started several of their own concert series in which they have performed the complete Haydn cycle.

The quartet have given recitals of Haydn programmes at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Cheltenham International Festival, the Granada International Festival and at Haydn festivals in Esterhazy, Lincoln and Lyon and the English Haydn Festival. Forthcoming performances include a series of four concerts at the Wigmore Hall in which the quartet will perform all Haydn’s opus 20 quartets alongside the six Mozart quintets with Steven Dann.

In the Spring of 2012 the quartet will give a three day seminar for students at the Royal Academy of Music comprising an intensive study of Haydn quartets. During a tour of USA and Canada they will also give masterclasses at Juilliard School of Music in New York and at Yale university.

In addition to their highly acclaimed performances of Haydn they have formed a collaboration with period clarinettist Eric Hoeprich with whom they also recorded the Brahms and Mozart quintets on the Glossa label. Recent concerts in this combination include a re-invitation to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, several concerts in USA and Canada including a recital at the Library of Congress and appearances in Switzerland, France, Germany and Czech Republic.

The London Haydn Quartet's recordings of Haydn's six quartets opus 9, op 17 and op 20 quartets on the Hyperion label have met with highly enthusuiastic critical acclaim. The opus 33 set will be released in 2012.

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