8 August 2010: Badke Quartet
This concert has already taken place.
[photo by Tas Kyprianou]
Background
The Badke was formed in 2002, named after its first violin, Heather Höhmann (née Badke); all its members are graduates of London’s Royal Academy of Music or Royal College of Music. They study regularly with Gabor Takács-Nagy at IMS Prussia Cove and during 2006-08 travelled once a month for a period of intensive study at the Alban Berg Quartet’s chamber music class in Cologne. From 2005 to 2009 the Badke held the Senior Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the RAM, playing at the Jubilee Hall in the winter string quartet series in 2006. They won both first and audience prizes at the 5th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2007 and first played at Cratfield in 2008, when we immediately invited them back. In January 2010, they returned to Snape for a residency, then to the Jubilee Hall for a concert of Haydn and Ravel. After playing at Cratfield, their next concert is at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as part of the Robeco Summer Series (their Netherlands debut).
Playing at Cratfield
The concert is at 3pm on Sunday 8 August 2010. It is dedicated to the memory of John Ormerod, long-time supporter of Blyth Valley Chamber Music and Chair of its Committee (2000-2002), who died at the end of April 2010 at the age of 83.
Concert programme
Haydn, String quartet in D minor op 76 (‘Erdödy’) no 2 (‘Fifths’) Hob III.76 (c 1799)
Janácek, String quartet no 2 (‘Intimate Letters’) (1928)
Ravel, String quartet in F (1902-1903)
CDs
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