The Moeran Quartet

quartet cocktails with moeran quartet

Please join the new quartet in residence, the Moeran Quartet, as they provide music for an evening of cocktails in the house. You'll enjoy a cocktail on arrival wonderful performance from The Moeran Quartet our new chamber quartet in residence plus another cocktail after the and after the concert.

The Moeran Quartet take their name from the composer Ernest John Moeran (1894 – 1950). The four members of the quartet are all experienced chamber musicians with a passion for the championing of British music. They lead diverse and varied musical careers playing regularly with orchestras such as the Hanover Band, Urban Soul Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Pauls and Opera Holland Park. Between them they have studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire and Royal College of Music.
The studying at this latter establishment is not the only link with the eponymous composer. James Greenfield, cellist and past member of the Billroth Quartet, also attended the same boarding school, Uppingham; a school Moeran later returned to as a professor of music.

Tom Leate - Violin
Charlotte Fairbairn - Violin
Helen Sanders-Hewett - viola
James Greenfield - Cello

Programme:
Haydn Razor 1st movement from 7th concert
Bach: Air on the G string
Elgar: Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Mozart: Divertimento in D major
Borodin: Nocturne from Quartet no. 2
Followed by music from the 20th Century including works by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter