Ludlow Arts: Classical

Ludlow Wednesday Concerts

Wednesday 19 March 2025

7:30pm

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Naomi Warburton violin
Sydney Grace Mariano violin
Wanshu Qiu viola
Simon Guémy cello

Haydn: String Quartet in E♭ major, Op.76, No.6
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.122
Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartet No.2 (1987)
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, L91

Established in 2020, the award-winning Kyan Quartet brings together four exceptional musicians from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and France.

The quartet enjoys a busy and vibrant career, having performed across Europe and Asia. Winners of the 2024 Royal Over-Seas League competition, the quartet has recently undertaken a three-week tour throughout China and holds several residencies. Recent collaborations include guitar quintets with Ahmed Dickinson at Wigmore Hall, and Mendelssohn’s famed Octet with the Carducci Quartet.

The Kyan Quartet pride themselves on championing new music. They have given Wigmore premières of commissioned pieces by Florence Anna Maunders and Zhenyan Li, and performed Symphony for String Quartet and Forest by Jacob Fitzgerald at the 2022 Timber Festival, featuring 200 school children singing alongside the quartet. The Kyans collaborated with Cem Güven to record his 2023 quartet Atmospheric Manipulations, and will feature on Ben Nobuto's upcoming debut album.

Tickets from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office available soon.