Edenis Quartet

This promising Quartet’s playing has been characterised as an “enormous power [with] highly delicate playing” the Henley Standard. The Edenis Quartet, formed in 2020, comprises of students from the Royal Academy of Music. They receive regular coachings from their mentor John Myerscough, cellist of the Doric Quartet, through the Academy’s Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme – a competitively selected programme for a small number of serious quartets, generously supported by the Frost Trust.

In 2020, they appeared as the solo quartet in Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, performing with the Academy Sainsbury Soloists directed by Clio Gould. In the Academy’s lunchtime recital series, they have played works such as Dvorak’s ‘American’ Quartet, Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet, Haydn’s Op.20 No.5, Mozart’s 1 st ‘Prussian’ Quartet, and Mendelssohn’s Op.44 No.1. Other venues they have performed in include Charlton House, Regent Hall and Northend Village Hall.

In 2021, they had the privilege of playing for Dame Jenny Abramsky, where they performed Minna Keal’s Fantasy for String Quartet, a piece that has not been yet recorded. The Edenis Quartet have had multiple coachings with renowned musicians including members of the Carducci Quartet, Doric Quartet, London Haydn Quartet, and chamber musicians such as Levon Chilingirian, Martin Outram and Isabel Charisius.

The Edenis Quartet were invited to Hatfield Chamber Music Festival 2021 where they performed alongside the Carducci Quartet, Guy Johnston, Brett Dean and VOCES8 choir. They were invited back to perform for the launch of the 2022 festival, giving an opening concert and a side-by-side performance of Brahms’ Sextet No.2 in G major with Guy Johnston, Magnus Johnston and James Boyd. Future projects include a recital at the Academy, playing Hannah Kendall’s Glances/I don’t belong here for string quartet which was premiered in 2019, and performing at Wigmore Hall as part of For Crying Out Loud!, their concert series especially designed for parents and carers, and their babies under the age of 1.