Ruth Gibson

Irish violist Ruth Gibson is an expressive artist who’s freedom and malleability show itself in her great range of collaborations. As a chamber musician and soloist she has appeared at the world’s leading concert halls and is resident artist with the Castalian String Quartet at Wigmore Hall and Oxford University.

As soloist she has performed under Sir John Elliott Gardiner with the Bournemouth Symphony, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Dmitry Sitkovetsky at Clandeboye Festival in Belfast and in August 2021 she gave her BBC Prom debut with Manchester Collective.

Alongside the Castalian Quartet, she is Principal Violist with Aurora orchestra interpreting great orchestral repertoire from memory; from Beethoven to Berlioz.

Programme

Sat
20.7.

Castalian-kvartetti

Thu
18.7.

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

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

Fri
19.7.

Francesco Antonioni (1971):

String Quartet No. 2 'Surfarara' (based on a Sicilian folk song sung by a sulfur miner) (2023, 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)