In demand since its formation in 2017, the Victoria String Quartet has gone on to perform for
chamber music societies and festivals throughout the UK and has been hailed as an ensemble ‘brim
full with pedigree and wide experience’ (Buxton International Festival), performing at venues
including Kendal (Lake District Summer Music), Pinner and Buxton Festivals, London, Manchester
(Bridgewater, RNCM and Stoller halls), north Norfolk, north and west Wales and the Scottish
Borders.
In addition to gathering return invitations to chamber music societies and festivals, the Victorias are
curating an ongoing programme of creative projects: a collection of short chamber works about (and
by) Sir John Manduell (Divine Arts), a recording of the Weber, Cooke and Brahms clarinet quintets,
and a CD of string chamber music by Richard Pantcheff (to be released 2024 Prima Facie), with BBC
Radio 3 presenter Tom McKinney. A recent autumn residency at Marchmont House in the Scottish
Borders saw the Quartet performing and recording a collection of string chamber works by Scottish
composer Helen Leach. Enthusiasts for lost and undiscovered works, in 2022 the Quartet gave the
first public performances of Elgar’s Six Fragments for String Quartet and are looking forward to
recording them in 2024. Since its inception, the Quartet has also enjoyed sharing the concert
platform with eminent colleagues such as the quartet, Quatuor Danel, Peter Hewitt and Irina
Andrievsky (piano), Leo Popplewell (cello), Richard Simpson (oboe) and John Bradbury, (Clarinet).