STANFORD QUARTET
ABOUT US
Violins - Laura and Eleanor Stanford
Viola - Amy Stanford
Cello - Jess Cox
The Stanford Quartet has established a reputation as a dynamic and versatile string quartet working with a variety of artists from Harrison Birtwhistle at the Dartington International Summer School to singer songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan on the main stage at Glastonbury. Raised in musical families the quartet's background is firmly rooted in classical music, with additional influences in theatre, opera, composition and dance.
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Whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music with members of the Alberni String Quartet, sisters Laura, Eleanor and Amy Stanford established the Stanford Quartet with cellist Jessica Cox, winning the John B McEwan quartet prized receiving awards in the Sir Arthur Bliss and Wigmore Hall competition. With an interest in British repertoire, the quartet entered the professional world as the resident ensemble for the Purbeck String Festival premiering newly commissioned works by Sally Beamish and Mike Westbrook as well as giving recitals, master classes and coaching. Continuing their association with living composers the Stanford Quartet followed with a three year collaboration at the Dartington International Summer School, working with Harrison Birtwhistle, Gerald Busby, Dai Fukikara and Peter Copley. They have since kept a busy diary giving recitals nationwide for the Concert Promoters Network and in London as the resident quartet at the University of Westminster.
REPERTOIRE
Samuel Barber​
String Quartet Op.11 in B Minor
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Beethoven
String Quartet Op.18 No.1 in F Major
String Quartet Op.18 No.3 in D Major
String Quartet Op.59 No.1 in F Major
String Quartet Op.95 in F Minor
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Arthur Bliss
Oboe Qunitet
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Borodin
String Quartet No.2 in D Major
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Benjamin Britain
String Quartet No.2 in C Major
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Gerald Busby
String Quartet No.1
String Quartet No.2
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Edward Elgar
String Quartet Op.83
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Debussy
String Quartet Op.10 in G Minor
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Jonathan Dove
'Out Of Time'
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Stephen Dodgson
Guitar Quintet
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Dvorák
String Quartet Op.96 in F Major 'American'
Terzetto Op.74
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Haydn
String Quartet Op.20 No.3
String Quartet Op.20 No.4
String Quartet Op.64 No.6
String Quartet Op.76 No.2
String Quartet Op.76 No.4
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Janacek
String Quartet No.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'
String Quartet No.2 'Intimate Letters'
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Mozart
String Quartet in G Major K156
String Quartet in B-flat Major K458 'Hunt'
String Quartet in A Major K464
String Quartet in C Major K465 'Dissonance'
String Quartet in D Major K499
String Quartet in D Major K575 'Prussian'
Clarinet Quintet
Oboe Quartet
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Arvo Pärt
'Fratres'
'Summa'
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Piazzola
'Libertango'
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Ravel
String Quartet in F Major
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Shostakovich
String Quartet No.6
String Quartet No.8
Piano Quintet
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Schubert
String Quartet No.14 in D Minor 'Death and the Maiden'
Quartettsatz in D Minor
Quintet Op.163
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Ethel Smythe
String Quartet in E Minor
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Charles Villiers Stanford
String Quartet No.5 in B-flat Op.104
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Vaughan Williams
String Quartet No.1 in G Minor
'On Wenlock Edge'
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William Walton
String Quartet in A Minor
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