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Date and times Saturday 6 December 2025 | 7.30pm-8.30pm
Prices Adult: £16, Adult Members and Patrons: £14.40, Child: £8, Child Members: £7.20

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Filled with magnificence, this concert of chamber music by the Holtág Quartet will leave you brimming with warmth and wonder. 

Highlights include a performance of Mozart's String Quartet No.19 in C major and The Londonderry Air by Frank Bridge. The evening will also feature Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte – a contemporary work that plays with classical forms. A festive encore will get you in the Christmas spirit.

This concert is part of a series of evening performances at the Queen's House, organised in partnership with the Faculty of Music at Trinity Laban and generously supported by The Rainbow Dickinson Trust. 

Tickets include a welcome drink, and a bar will be available in the Undercroft.

Event timings

Doors to the Undercroft and bar open: 6pm

Concert starts: 7.30pm

Concert ends: 8.30pm

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A group of four musicians standing in an arch holding string instruments

Programme

Caroline Shaw Entr'acte (11 mins)

Mozart String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465 (Adagio – Allegro, Andante cantabile, Menuetto and Trio, Allegro, Allegro molto (30 mins)

Frank Bridge The Londonderry Air, H. 68 (8 mins)

Performers

Holtág Quartet

Virág Hévízi violin

Paris Rizas Pintzopoulos violin

Ivan Illingworth viola

Morgan Key cello

About the Holtág Quartet

The Holtág Quartet are a newly formed string quartet comprising students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Since their debut where they performed works by Haydn, Beethoven and Glass, they have gone on to explore repertoire by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Elizabeth Maconchy and Frank Bridge. 

The quartet were finalists in the 2025 CAVATINA Intercollegiate Competition at Wigmore Hall and were awarded the Sir John Barbirolli Prize for String Quartets at Trinity Laban. They also made their debut on BBC Radio 3's In Tune. The group are currently the piloting the Centre for Ensemble Excellence chamber music course at Trinity Laban.

With grateful thanks

Evening performances at the Queen's House by Trinity Laban are kindly supported by The Rainbow Dickinson Trust. 

The Rainbow Dickinson Trust was established in the late 1990s by Dr Bernarr Rainbow, the leading authority on music education, and Professor Peter Dickinson, the composer, pianist, author and academic. The aim of the Trust is to advance and promote education in music.

Under Peter Dickinson’s leadership, the Trust has sponsored publications and lectures, and made hundreds of grants to musical endeavours, particularly those for young performers and audiences. Today the Trust continues to support a wide range of music education work, in line with the interests and achievements of its founders.

Both founders of the Trust had strong connections with Trinity Laban (formerly Trinity College of Music) and took a close interest in its work.

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