The Bingham String Quartet & Philip Higham

The Bingham String Quartet: Steve Bingham and Hilary Sturt, violins, Brenda Stewart, viola and James Halsey, cello.

The Bingham String Quartet is joined by international cellist Philip Higham, to present an exciting and varied evening. Drawing on their vast combined experience of performing music from all eras, the quartet and Philip will punctuate the evening with insightful, fascinating and friendly introductions.

Opening the performance with American contemporary composer Caroline Shaw’s “entr’acte”- inspired by her hearing one of the great Haydn quartets – the quartet will then be joined by Philip Higham to perform the wonderful and  humorous Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid by Boccherini, and Arensky’s quartet for violin, viola and two cellos. This was written in 1894 and dedicated to Tchaikovsky who had died the previous year. The Binghams will also play Bartok’s first string quartet, a magnificent and pivotal piece in early 20th Century string quartet writing.