Salomé Quartet

Described as ‘strikingly intelligent and expressive’ by The Strad, the Salomé Quartet are recognised for their heartfelt interpretations and electric sense of communication, and are quickly establishing a reputation as one of UK’s most exciting young string quartets.

Formed in 2016 by four prizewinning students at the Royal College of Music in London, the Salomé Quartet is a multinational ensemble whose members have performed worldwide in venues including Muzikverein (Vienna), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Unesco Hall (Paris), Lutoslawski Concert Studio (Warsaw), Tel Aviv Opera House (Israel), as well as the Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall in London.

In 2017 the quartet won the RCM String Quartet Competition, Helen Just & Susan Cornell Prize, Sacconi Quartet Prize, and has held Artistic Residencies at the Oundle School, Leighton House Museum and Greenwich Cutty Sark.

Pre-pandemic, the group performed around the UK and abroad, including Milton Court, Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Kent, and Tel Aviv Opera House, among others. The quartet was invited to Keshet Eilon International Mastercourse in Israel and Trondheim Academy in Norway, Musethica Germany and Spain, as well as numerous festivals across the UK, including the Wye Valley Festival, Chiltern Arts Festival, Sacconi Festival, North Norfolk Festival and Highgate International Chamber Music Festival. They were also selected as finalists in the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition (the final round never took place due to the pandemic).

The group has worked with renowned musicians such as Mats Zetterqvist, Simon Rowland Jones, Paul Roczek, Chaim Taub, Garth Knox, Grigory Kalinovsky, and ensembles such as Sacconi, Chilingirian, Harlem, Austrian, Aviv, and Fitzwilliam Quartets.

Their engagements this season include appearances at the Wigmore Hall, Conway Hall, Wye Valley Music, Bayle Music, and more; devising and performing in a Bristol Old Vic theatre production ‘Dr Semmelweis’ revolving around Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’; a recording project of new music for string quartet by John Woolrich.

Salomé Quartet are grateful for the generous support from the Leverhulme Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Orpheus Award, and Joan Weller & Jessie Sumner Scholarship.