Coffee Concert: Heath Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op.20 No.5 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat major Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op.34

Sara Wolstenholme violin Marije Johnson violin Gary Pomeroy viola Christopher Murray cello

Formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, the quartet were selected for representation by YCAT, awarded a Borletti-Buitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship and in 2012 won the Ensemble Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern where they are now regular visitors. In 2016 they won the Gramophone Chamber Award for their recording of the complete string quartets of Sir Michael Tippett, and in May 2013 became the first ensemble in fifteen years to win the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artists Award.