• Concert Artist Management •
63, Cambridge Street • London • SW1V 4PS
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7976 5041 • email: info@tashmina.co.uk
63, Cambridge Street • London • SW1V 4PS
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7976 5041 • email: info@tashmina.co.uk
Australian String Quartet
Management: UK
Tashmina Artists handles the UK Management of the Australian String Quartet and would be delighted to hear from promoters wishing to discuss possible projects.
Full information about this extraordinarily accomplished string quartet can be found on their website here.
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) was established in 1985 and is Quartet-in-Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide. The Quartet tours both nationally and internationally, and has had a major impact on the musical life of Australia.
The current membership of Sophie Rowell and Anne Horton, violins, Sally Boud, viola, and Rachel Johnston, cello was established in 2006. In 2000, this combination of players originally came together as the Tankstream Quartet and was coached by Alice Waten at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney.
This ASQ is the only Australian group to have been participants in the prestigious chamber music class of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik. It also holds the distinction of having won more international chamber music competitions than any other ensemble in Australian history: First Prize at the 2005 Cremona International String Quartet Competition, the Gold Medal in the 2002 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (Japan), first place in the 2001 Australian Chamber Music Competition, and Second Prize in the Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy in 2005.
The ASQ has performed in many major European cities including Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Cologne, Belgrade, Budapest, Zagreb, Frankfurt, Reggio Emilia (Italy), and in New York, USA. It has also toured throughout Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Japan and the UK. The Quartet has been broadcast extensively in Australia on ABC Classic FM and has been featured on NDR (North German Radio), the BBC and Radio France, and televised in Austria, Australia, Denmark and Japan.
Throughout its history the ASQ has commissioned, premiered and performed works by leading Australian composers including Brett Dean, Gordon Kerry, Nigel Westlake, Charles Bodman Rae, Ross Edwards, Andrew Ford, Miriam Hyde, Elena Kats-Chernin, Graeme Koehne, Richard Meale, Peter Sculthorpe, Roger Smalley and Paul Stanhope.
Please do get in touch with us (contact details above) to explore possibilities, and we will be able to advise you of their tour periods in each season. Please also contact us if you would like to be sent the ASQ's publicity pack by post.