Christopher Hogwood director Paul Goodwin associate conductor Richard Egarr associate director

The London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn’s string quartets. Playing on gut strings with classical bows, they have received invitations to many of the most important concert series in UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland. In addition to this, they have started several of their own concert series in which they have performed the complete Haydn cycle. Recently they have given recitals of Haydn programmes at the Wigmore Hall, the Cheltenham International Festival and at Haydn festivals in Lincoln and Lyon and the English Haydn Festival. This year they will also play at the Haydn Festival in Esterhazy.

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 have included a reinvitation to the Concertgebouw, a tour of the USA and Canada including a recital at the Library of Congress and appearances in Serbia, Switzerland and France.

Sample Programme:

Haydn’s Quartets contain such richly diverse music that there seems to be an infinite variety of ways to combine them to create fascinating programmes. So many of the greatest works are very rarely played and the London Haydn Quartet has set out to change that by including all of Haydn’s String Quartets in its repertoire.

Recordings:

Brahms/Mozart Clarinet Quintets with Eric Hoeprich (Glossa)
Haydn’s Six Quartets Op. 9 (to be released July 2007 on the Hyperion label)

Performances:

11 Feb 06 Wigmore Hall, London
28 Apr 06 Library of Congress, Washington DC
2 Jul 06 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Contact:

Catherine Manson, 29 Church Road, Totternhoe, Beds LU6 1RE

Tel: 01582 699430

Email: manson.catherine@googlemail.com Website: www.londonhaydnquartet.co.uk