CHANGE OF DATE. This concert was advertised in our brochures for the 17th February. Since going to press this has had to be changed to the 24th February. Please accept our apologies for this alteration.

The Maxwell Quartet, an exciting young Scottish quartet, is coming to Kelso as winners of a Tunnell Trust Award which has given us so many superb ensembles in the past.  They are playing great works by three composers who have been very under represented in Kelso in recent years.

Hailed as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating”
(The Herald) it is rapidly establishing itself as a dynamic
and exciting force in the chamber music world, with a
strong commitment to bringing together wide-ranging
projects and programmes to expand the string quartet
repertoire. The quartet performs regularly across the UK
and abroad, at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall,Purcell Room, and St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the quartet
is currently on the Park Lane Young Artist Programme, and
the Tunnell Trust Awards Scheme.

The quartet was formed in 2010 at the royal
Conservatoire of Scotland and chosen as the RCS’s Young
Artists in Residence. They were also made artists in
residence for Enterprise Music Scotland 2011-13 which
gave them the opportunity for establishing a great
reputation throughout Scotland.

The 2015/16 season sees a unique collaboration between
the quartet and the Royal Ballet School, London, in
addition to collaborations with cinematographer Herman
Kolgen, and a tour of Poland with composer Krysztof
Penderecki.