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BADKE QUARTET - quartetto d'archi

Heater Badke , Emma Parker – violino

Matthew Jones – viola

Jonathan Byers – violoncello

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BIOGRAFIA   

Il Quartetto Badke  -  formato nel 2002 da membri della Royal Academy of Music e del Royal College of Music di Londra  -  è uno dei migliori giovani quartetti  britannici esordienti.  Tuttora studiano con il Quartetto Alban Berg.  Hanno  ricevuto la Leverhulme Junior Chamber Music Fellowship alla Royal Academy of Music (2003-2005) e nel 2006 la Bulldog Scholarship per Quartetto d’Archi al Trinity College of Music di Londra.

Hanno  partecipato a prestigiosi Festival tra i quali Aldeburgh, Chichester, Verbier, Bellerive, Belfast per citarne solamente alcuni.

Recentemente hanno suonato alla Wigmore Hall,   St John’s Smith Square e Royal Festival Hall a Londra  ed inoltre, a St George’s a Bristol  e  St David’s Hall a Cardiff .

In seguito alla vittoria - nel Luglio 2007 -  del primo premio alla Melbourne Chamber Music Competition,  il Quartetto si impone all’attenzione internazionale.

Futuri impegni  li vedranno protagonisti presso importanti sedi concertistiche nel Regno Unito ed in Europa:

nella stagione 07/08  il Quartetto e’ impegnato alla Bridgewater Hall di Manchester, ai Festival di Winchester ed Aldeburgh, debutterà  in Germania (Frankfurt Philharmonic Society), e sarà  "quartetto in residence"  al Gresham College di Londra.

Progetti futuri includono il debutto al Musikverein di Vienna, un re-invito alla Wigmore Hall , concerti in Germania, Svizzera e tournee in Scozia ed Irlanda.

Il successo raggiunto è confermato dalle numerose esecuzioni trasmesse da radio quali Classic FM e BBC radio 3.

RECENSIONI   

THE STRAD (FEB 2007)

Formed in 2002, the Badke Quartet has nothing like the Takács’s 30-year experience, but its St John’s, Smith Square, concert with Warren Mailley-Smith showed promising potential (12 November). In the opening movement of Haydn’s String Quartet in G major op.76 no.1 the players exhibited a stylish, collegial spirit and a simple youthfulness that was carefully measured rather than intuitively overdone. The broad Andante sostenuto second movement came across with great depth and a Beethovenian sense of fantasy, while most of the movement was daringly dispatched without vibrato. The presto theme of the minuet may not have been fleet-footed enough, but its variations were suitably varied and coloured.

Then came a perceptive performance of Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.10, where the understated but unmistakably dark opening Andante was balanced by a second movement whose bold, driving rhythmic energy was never over-pushed. The pivotal, intense cello solo of the third movement was skilfully played by cellist Jonathan Byers. After the interval the group accompanied pianist Warren Mailley-Smith in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.12 in A major K414. This is a well-balanced quartet, led with attitude and flair by Heather Badke, its Wigmore Hall debut this June should be an exciting event. - Edward Bhesania

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