Daniel Roberts

Daniel Llewellyn Roberts studied with Nigel Murray at St. Mary’s Music School and Jan Repko at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music. In 2011 he founded the Castalian String Quartet. Today, the quartet tours internationally, appearing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Paris Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie and Vienna Konzerthaus, and is artist in residence at the University of Oxford. In 2019 they were named the Royal Philharmonic Young Artist of the Year. Daniel teaches on the Xenia International Chamber Music Course in Italy and formerly held positions at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and St Paul’s Girls’ School, London. He is most grateful to the Worshipful Company of Musicians for the loan of a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri ‘Filius Andrea’ of 1705.

 

Programme

Tue
23.7.

Castalian-kvartetti

Thu
18.7.

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

String Quartet No. 15 in G, D. 887 (1826)

Fri
19.7.

Francesco Antonioni (1971):

Surfarara, based on a Sicilian folk song sung by a sulfur miner (2024, Finnish premier)

Fri
19.7.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 'Serioso' (1810–11)

Sun
21.7.

Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):

String Quartet No. 63 in B flat, Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise' (1797)

Mon
22.7.

Wynton Marsalis (1961):

Meeelaan for bassoon and string quartet (1999)

Mon
22.7.

Béla Bartók (1881—1945):

String Quartet No. 5, BB 110 (1934)