Quartet Concrète
Formed at Guildhall School in 2021, Quartet Concrète are known for their natural chemistry, blended sound, and vivid atmospheres. Winners of the 2023 St James’ Chamber Music Competition, they have performed across Europe at venues including the Barbican, St James’ Piccadilly, Holker Hall, and Cité Musicale Metz. They were mentored through Chamber Studio’s Hans Keller Forum by John Myerscough, Alasdair Beatson, and Richard Ireland, and held a 2024 residency at the Lake District Music Festival. Passionate educators and champions of new music, they have worked with the Brodsky Quartet, Heath Quartet, and Quatuor Diotima, while maintaining an active international concert schedule.
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- Ballet Nights NYD
- Conway Hall
- Opera Holland Park
- Nantwen Chamber Music
- Montreux Jazz Festival
- Académie Diotima
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Violin 1: Anna Brown
Violin 2: Isabella Todes
Viola: Dominic Stokes
Cello: Joseph Barker
Quartet Concrète formed at the Guildhall School in 2021 and throughout their time together they have earned praise for their natural chemistry, well blended sound and colourful atmospheres.
The quartet 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 have worked at both GYA King’s Cross and on the GSMD Summer Courses.Quartet Concrète champion the works of contemporary and young composers. As recent participants of Quatour Diotima’s “L’Académie Diotima”, they performed 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 a future performance at the Opéra national du Rhin in April 2026. Other influential masterclasses and mentorships have included sessions with András Keller, David Waterman, Candida Thompson, Robert Levin and Johannes Meissl to name a few.
Quartet Concrète also collaborate across genres, including recording string arrangements, as well an ongoing partnership with Ballet Nights where they showcase the string quartet repertoire alongside classical and contemporary ballet. They have also worked with the NEST, and most recently collaborated on: Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven, a play by Tama Matheson at Opera Holland Park 2025, working alongside Jayson Gillham as music director. The music received much critical acclaim: “Quartet Concrète delivered exquisite interpretations of Beethoven's chamber works” - London Theatre Reviews.
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. Quartet Concrète also love to perform works not traditionally written for string quartet, arranged by their violist, Dominic Stokes. Recent arrangements include: Bach’s “Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh” and Paul Mealor’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, which they performed at various concerts around the UK in Summer 2025.
Upcoming11-20 March 2026 Ballet Nights Regional Tour @ Manchester, Brighton, London
10 April 2026 - Diotima Presents, Quartet Concrète: Schubert ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ @ Opera du Rhin Foyer, Strasbourg
8 May 2026 - Recital @ St Bride’s Church, Fleet St
28 June 2026 - Recital @ Conway Hall
25th October 2026 - Recital @ Riverhouse Barn
Previous1 January 2026 - Ballet Nights, NYD Concert @ Cadogan Hall
28 November 2025 - Schubert Quintet with Bartholomew Lafollete @ Conway Hall, London
10 November 2025 - Concert @ Lavethan House, Cornwall
1 August 2025 - Guildhall Composer Course final concert @ GSMD, London
6&8 August 2025 - ‘Beethoven, I shall hear in heaven’ with Tama Matheson @ Opera Holland Park, London
5th&6th July 2025 - Nantwen Chamber Music Festival, Wales
4 July 2025 - Sienna Spiro @ Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland
AwardsSt James Chamber Prize 2023
Last Updated 03.02.2026