Castalian String Quartet

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Tickets

£20 (buy two concerts for £30)

£10 for students and under 25 (buy two concerts for £15) 

50% off student tickets: Use the voucher code CAST£5 at check out for up to two student tickets for £5 each. T&Cs apply.

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Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at University of Oxford

Presented by The Cultural Programme in association with the Faculty of Music

We are delighted to be working with Oxford University Cultural Programme to bring the Castalian String Quartet's incredible performances to you through a series of chamber concerts and pre-concert talks with members of the quartet and Oxford University academics.

Formed in 2011, the Castalian String Quartet is taking the international chamber music scene by storm. They are the first Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the University of Oxford, thanks to The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust

Sini Simonen (violin) / Daniel Roberts (violin) / Natalie Loughran (viola) / Steffan Morris (cello)

Coleridge-Taylor - 5 Fantasiestücke, Op. 5
Francesco Antonioni - String Quartet No. 2 'Surfarara'
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 127

Presented by The Cultural Programme in association with the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, where the Castalian String Quartet are The Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence. Made possible thanks to The Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.

PRE-CONCERT TALK WITH PROFESSOR LAURA TUNBRIDGE
A string quartet concert was likened by Goethe to hearing 'four intelligent people conversing among themselves'. But is conversation still a useful model for how string quartets communicate in the twenty-first century? Laura Tunbridge investigates these and related questions about quartet interaction with live examples by student musicians.