ConTempo String Quartet, St Swithun’s Church, Grovelands Road, Purley CR8 4LB, 6th April 2013, 7:30 pm
Purley Overseas Trust (POST) is delighted to welcome back to Purley the ConTempo String Quartet for their fifth visit. They will be playing at St Swithun’s Church, Grovelands Road, Purley on Saturday 6th April 2013 and their programme will consist of the Concerto for String Quartet by Paul Constantinescu, Joseph Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet, and quartets by George Enescu and Felix Mendessohn. The concert will commence at 7.30 p.m. and tickets are priced at £15, £10 (concessions) and £5 for those 18 years old and under or who are in full time education. Refreshments are included in the price of tickets which may be obtained from me or any member of the POST Committee (Email: [email protected], tel: 020 8660 3770).
The Quartet was formed in 1995 when the members were students at the Music University in Bucharest, Romania. Since then they have studied with some of the most celebrated string quartets of the world, such as the Amadeus, the Alban Berg, the Tokyo, the Emerson, the Hagen and the Quartetto Italiano. From 1999 to 2002, ConTempo was in receipt of a Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and in 2003, after an International Audition, ConTempo became Galway’s Quartet-in-Residence - a project sponsored by the National University of Galway, the National TV Channel TG4 and the Arts Council.
ConTempo has won an amazing total of 14 prizes in International Competitions, including first prizes in the GrosserForderpreise competition in Munich, the Valentino Bucchi competition in Rome and the Tunnel Trust competition in London. Not surprisingly in view of these successes, they tour the World extensively, receiving ecstatic reviews wherever they go.
In their private lives, this highly prestigious group of musicians, remarkably, consists of two husbands and their wives: the violinists, Bogdan Sofei and Ingrid Nicola are married as are the violist Andreea Banciu and the ’cellist, Adrian Mantu. Even more remarkably, both couples are the proud parents of two daughters!
Do take the opportunity of coming to hear this outstanding group of musicians who will be playing a programme of music that is accessible to all. At the same time, you will be supporting POST’s work among some of the most deprived people on the planet.
Richard Strange
Chairman
Purley Overseas Trust