Performer Name: The Mavron Quartet
Show Name: The Mavron Quartet
Show Description
The Mavron Quartet is Wales’ leading string quartet and since 2010, holds the position of the first Ensemble in Residence at the National Concert Hall of Wales, St David’s Hall. Since 2002, the quartet has fused artistic excellence with a passion for presenting classical repertoire with fresh contemporary pieces, regularly commissioning ground- breaking new works and multimedia projects. We are available for both evening recitals (2 x 45 minutes: £1800) and lunch time recitals (1 hour: £1200) and are able to offer a wide range of repertoire to suit your event from light classics and Christmas music to larger scale string quartet works. Please feel free to contact us to discuss potential repertoire.
We require adequate lighting to be seen by the audience but we are able to provide our own stand lights so that we are able to see the music.
We will require 4 armless chairs.
Performance space: 4 (width) x 3 (depth) meters.
Get in/Get out time: 1 hour.
Ideally, we would like to be able to have a short rehearsal before the performance to get used to the acoustics of the space but this is not essential.
We are able to supply a press kit containing biographies and photographs for promotional materials.
The Mavron Quartet was formed in September 2002 and is the first Ensemble in Residence at the National Concert Hall of Wales, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, having been appointed in 2010.
In 2004 the Quartet members were appointed Junior Fellows in Chamber Music at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and since 2003, worked for the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. The Quartet is also an alumni of Live Music Now.
In 2012, the Quartet was Young Artists in Residence at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. This included performances of Glass String Quartets and a newly commissioned work by Tom Green. Also in 2012, the Mavrons performed at the Monmouth Festival, which involved premiering ‘footsteps in the shadow’ by Peter Reynolds. As well as its public performances, the Quartet has appeared at the Senedd, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the private London residence of the American Ambassador to the UK, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Guests at these performances have included HM The Queen, HRH The Prince of Wales, current and former Prime Ministers, and Welsh Ministers.
With funding support from various organisations, the Mavron Quartet has commissioned and performed a number of collaborative pieces - collaboration being a strong ethos of the Quartet. In 2014 the Mavrons will collaborate with composer Tom Green and soprano Juliet Fraser to produce a new work based on the text from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife. Other collaborations in 2014 included performances of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet with Michael Collins for the Lower Machen Festival, Brahm’s Piano Quintet with Roger Owen and a composition workshop series with composer Peter Reynolds and St David’s Hall.