The Heath Quartet with Alice Neary (cello)
Sunday September 26 2010
Farnham Castle at 7.30pm
Oliver Heath - vioin; Cerys Jones - violin; Gary Pomeroy - viola; Christopher Murray - cello
Alive Neary - cello
Programme
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op.2, No.5
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D956
Selected by YCAT in 2008, during the past year the Heath Quartet has won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Tromp International Competition in Eindhoven and second prize at the Haydn International Competition in Vienna. The Quartet has given recitals throughout the Netherlands, including their debut at the Concertgebouw.
For the Schubert Quintet, the Quartet will be joined by the well-known cellist Alice Neary. Alice is a member of the Gould Piano Trio with whom she has recorded extensively. Alice plays an Alessandro Gagliano cello of 1710.