The young Consone String Quartet were the highlight for many, returning to the festival for the first time performing in a bigger venue.

The Piano Trio, String Quartet, and Piano Quintet are some of the gravest chamber works in Petr Eben's compositional legacy.

Students who are selected to participate in the HIMA string quartet seminar will receive daily quartet rehearsals and individual practice sessions, 90 minutes of daily master class, and 60 minutes of daily coaching.

In the Junior Division (for musicians 18 and younger), the Gold Medal ($2,300) was won by Kairos String Quartet of Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, Illinois.

In honor of his memory and his music, Chamber Music on the Fox presents "In Memoriam: Brewbaker & Brahms," an evening of string quartets in honor of and in tribute to Daniel Brewbaker, one of the Fox Valley's great cultural icons.

Huddersfield New College's Performing Arts Group will join Musica Kirklees' String Quartet at the first Kirklees and Calderdale Annual Charity Christmas Lunch.

The tenor Charles Daniels is joined by The Bridge String Quartet for this and Warlock's Sweet Content.

One of the world's most sought-after string quartets, the Emerson String Quartet has accumulated an impressive list of accolades and collaborated with brilliant artists including Rene Fleming.

It will be the first visit to Rhyl for the group who are recognised as one of today's most successful string quartets and perform over 90 concerts worldwide each year.

There should be quite a bit of musical drama during the Brentano String Quartet's concert at 8 p.m.

The concert will feature Haydn's String Quartet No 42, English composer EJ Moeran's Trio for Strings in G major, and Debussy's String Quartet.

Their concert, in the picturesque setting of All Saints Church, Leamington Hastings, near Rugby, comes hot on the heels of the Allegri String Quartet, who are playing at Leamington's Royal Pump Rooms tonight, and ahead of the Coull Quartet's first concert of their new season at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, on Wednesday.

It was entirely appropriate that the Chiaroscuro String Quartet should play in this splendid setting for what was a beautifully crafted concert of light and shade, "Sturm und Drang," danger and ultimate resolution.

Robert Mann was the founding first violinist of the renowned Julliard String Quartet and worked with the group for 52 consecutive years, from 1946 to 1997.