Joe MacDonald, violin

Sally Aiko Dando, violin

Joe Berry, viola

Carys Hnderwood, cello

Programme

Dvorak, Quartet No. 10 in Eflat Major Op.51

E.J Moeran, Quartet No.2 in Eflat Major

About the Seion String Quartet

In the summer term of 2024 the Seion Quartet won the RCM String Quartet Competition awarded with The Helen Just & Susan Connell Prize and the Sacconi Quartet Prize. The Seion Quartet are also one of the ensembles in residency at the Hans Keller Forum of 24/25, receiving intensive coaching from Donald Grant, John Myerscough and Alasdair Beatson over three residencies in Cambridge in the next academic year. They have also gained a place on the RCM String Quartet Platform for 24/25 and will be performing at Wigmore Hall in June 2025.

Throughout their time together as a quartet they’ve been fortunate to have received coaching from world renowned quartets such as the Maggini, Solem, Sacconi, and Brodsky Quartets and expert coaches Rafael Todes, Simon Rowland-Jones, Mats Zetterqvist and Denis Brott

They formed in early 2023 and since then have worked hard to develop themselves through a variety of coaching and performance opportunities. Some of their highlights include: regular engagements with the Broadstone and RCM Chamber Music Series, side by side projects with the Brodsky and Sacconi Quartets and playing for their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan, Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the State Banquet held at Buckingham Palace in June.

The members of the Seion Quartet are violinists Joe MacDonald and Sally Aiko Dando, violist Joe Berry and cellist Carys Underwood, students at the Royal College of Music. Their name ‘Seion’ ties in with Joe MacDonald and Sally’s Japanese heritage which can be translated to mean ‘tone of voice’ or ‘serenity’.

In Association with: Royal College of Music

Entry

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