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Chilingirian Quartet

Kings Place, 16-Apr-2023 / 18:00

Kings Place, 30-Jan-2022 / 18:30

Unfortunately, the Quartet's concert scheduled for the 3rd of May 2020 at Kings Place was cancelled due to the pandemic.

About

The Chilingirian Quartet consists of Levon Chilingirian on violin, Susie Mészáros on viola and Stephen Orton on cello. Mr. Chilingirian is a professor and Chamber Music Artist in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music and professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The quartet holds a teaching position at the Royal College of Music since 1988.

Kings Place, 23-May-2021 / 11:30

  • Janáček: On an Overgrown Path
  • Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise'

Kings Place, 19-May-2019 / 18:30

Recital with violaist Prunella Pacey

  • Mozart: String Quintet No. 5 in D
  • Brahms: String Quintet No. 2 in G
  • Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E flat K614

The Chilingirian Quartet played Thea Musgrave's String Quartet, the European premiere of Kareem Roustom's String Quartet 'Shades of Night' and Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1 in D Op.11 on the 8th of May 2019 at the Purcell Room.

Favourite pieces

Bartók' String Quartet No. 4 (1928) performed in 2016 (October) and 2015 (May).

Mozart's String Quintet No. 4 in G minor performed in 2019 (February) and 2015 (May).

Kings Place, 3-Feb-2019 / 18:30

Recital with violaist Prunella Pacey

  • Mozart: String Quintet No. 2 in C minor
  • Beethoven: String Quintet in C Op. 29

The quartet performed:

  • > Mozart's String Quintet No. 1, String Quintet No. 3 and Mendelssohn's String Quintet No. 1 in A with violaist Prunella Pacey on the 13th of May 2018 at Kings Place.
  • > Brahms Piano quintet and Ronald Corp's Letters from Sony with Andrew Bronwell and Sarah Pring respectively at St. Jude’s, Central Square on the 28th of June 2017,
  • > at Kings Place on the 2nd of April 2017.

Ronald Birks was a member of the Quartet between 2009 and his untimely death in October 2020.

Susie Mészáros won the Gold Medal at the Royal Over-Seas League competition.

Kings Place, 5-Feb-2017 / 18:30

  • Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B flat K.589
  • Bartok: String Quartet No. 6 (1939)
  • Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op. 18 No. 3

The Quartet were the Shakespeare’s Globe artists’ in Residence in 2016.

Haydn's Opus 76 No 3 No. 9 at Kings Place

Kings Place, 13-Nov-2016 / 18:30

Bach: Das Musikalische Opfer (The Musical Offering), BWV1079 (arr. H David)

  • Chilingirian Quartet, Roy Carter - Oboe, Paul Edmund Davis - Flute, Prunella Pacey - Viola, Toby White - Cello, Enno Senft - Bass, John Constable - Harpsichord

Kings Place, 9-Oct-2016

  • Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor
  • Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6

Stephen Orton became became the quartet's cellist following the retirement of Philip de Groote in 2013.

He took the position of principal cello with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 1985.

Susie Mészáros studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and held the Camerata Salzburg's position of principal viola.

The quartet was founded by Levon Chilingirian OBE in 1971, along with cellist Philip De Groote.

Stephen Orton was born in Ripon, Yorkshire.

Levon Chilingirian was born in Cyprus, and moved with his familiy to London in 1960,

Kings Place, 7-Feb-2016

  • Mozart: String Quartet in A K464
  • Bartók: String Quartet No. 2
  • Beethoven: String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2

Kings Place, 8-Nov-2015

  • Mozart: String Quartet in D K575
  • Bartók: String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 Sz.40
  • Beethoven: String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5

Milton Court Concert Hall, 15-May-2015

Recital with violaist Matthew Jones

  • Haydn: String Quartet in B flat major Op 55 No. 3

The quartet performed works by Haydn and Ravel on the 26th of February 2012.

The quartet made its BBC proms debut on the 25th of August 1976 with a performance of Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat major Op 20 alongside the Lindsay String Quartet at the Royal Albert Hall.