String quartet to play Market Drayton concert
An up-and-coming string quartet will play a concert in Market Drayton.
The Dunev Quartet will come to the Festival Drayton Centre on April 7, playing a selection of pieces from European and Soviet composers.
The quartet is made up of violinists Hristo Dunev and Mahalia Edwards, Eleanor Chapman on viola and cellist Alice Cheer.
Hristo previously won first prize at the Young Virtuoso International Competition, and Mahaliah the Be Inspired Youth Award from the Association of Jamaican Nationals.
They formed the quartet with Eleanor and Alice in 2017.
Their programme at the Festival Drayton Centre will include Langsammer Satz by the Austrian composer Anton Webern and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No 8, also called The Dresden.
The second half will feature Franz Schubert’s Quartet in A Minor, also known as the Rosamunde.
John Hargreaves, who helps organise the classical music series at the Festival Centre, said: “Although described as one of Schubert’s ‘late masterworks’, he was only 27 when he wrote it.
"It will be interesting to hear how this similarly young quartet shapes this exquisite music in its journey from despair to hope.”
For more information and tickets to the show, which begins at 3pm, call the centre on 01630 654346.
