Quartet Concrète formed at the Guildhall School in 2021, and during their time together they have earned praise for their natural chemistry, well blended sound and colourful atmospheres. They were winners of the 2023 St James' Chamber Music Competition and have performed at venues across Europe, including the Barbican, St James' Piccadilly, Holker Hall, and Cité Musicalé Metz.
In 2023, they were selected to be part of Chamber Studio’s Hans Keller Chamber Forum, receiving mentorship from John Myerscough, Alasdair Beatson and Richard Ireland in three residencies across the 2023/24 season. In summer 2024, they were a resident string quartet at the Lake District Music Summer Festival where they gave numerous recitals as well as performing alongside Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch and the Alkyona Quartet. Whilst there, they also received coaching and masterclasses from the Brodsky and Heath Quartets.
Quartet Concrète are also keen educators themselves and, as an ensemble, have worked at both GYA King’s Cross and on the GSMD Summer Courses for young people.
Quartet Concrète performs regularly with the Rothko Collective, showcasing contemporary music as well as playing commissions by young composers. They also collaborate across genres including work with pop artists such as Sienna Spiro, giving performances at venues such as O2 Academy, Brixton, Wilton’s Music Hall and Villars Palace, Switzerland. They have recorded the strings for Spiro’s single “Butterfly Effect” which has amassed over 2.1 million streams. In July 2025, they joined Spiro for her debut performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Amongst other music collaborations, concerts and recitals are at the core of what Quartet Concrète do. They have performed internationally, as well as across London and the UK, bringing their programmes to a wide range of audiences. Works from their most recent programmes include: Mozart’s String Quartet No.14 in G major, Beethoven’s Op.18 No.1, Mendelssohn Op.13 and Britten’s 3 Divertimenti. Quartet Concrète also champion arrangements of works, not traditionally written for string quartet. Recent arrangements include, Bach’s “Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh” and Paul Mealor’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, performed at Riverhouse Barn and Nantwen Chamber Music Festival in Pembrokeshire.
In February 2025, the Quartet were invited to be a part of Quatour Diotima’s “L’Académie Diotima”, performing a new work by Arnau Gran i Romero, “À vif”, and Donnacha Dennehy’s, “The Weather of It”, at the Cité Musicale Metz. Their success on this academy has led to Quatour Diotima promoting the quartet for a concert at the Opéra national du Rhin in April 2026, where they will perform “À vif” alongside Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.
In an exciting new collaboration, the Quartet will be a part of RPS Storytelling Award 2022 nominated play, Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven by Tama Matheson. Working alongside Jayson Gillham as music director, they will give performances at Opera Holland Park in August 2025. The performances will draw upon their skills both as a classical quartet, covering core repertoire, but also as multi-disciplinary performers in a versatile ensemble.
A forthcoming recital project will include concerts at Lavethan, Cornwall, and a subsequent concert series around the south-west of England. The programme will be centred around Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, and will take place in November 2025 under the direction of Krysia Osostowicz.