Saturday 24 Mar 2007

19.30, St Christopher’s Church, Wey Hill, Haslemere GU27; Box office: 01428 652448 or 01428 64216

Tickets: £14 (£5 concessions)

Programme:

• Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No 4 in D, ‘Sun’, Op 20
• Bedrich Smetana: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, ‘From my life’
• Edward Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op 83

Formed in 1995 in Bucharest , the Contempo Quartet has toured the world extensively and won many international prizes. The Quartet has appeared at major European festivals including Munich , Eisenstadt, Bath , Berlin and Paris.

As Quartet-in-Residence in Galway the Contempo Quartet hosted the first music summer school there in July 2004, while in July 2005 the members of the Quartet launched their own festival Contempo Summer Concerts which involved artists such as Emma Johnson, Martin Lovett, Bruno Giuranna and Mairtin O’Connor.