Fibonacci Quartet
RPS Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award | £2,500
The Fibonacci Quartet is one of Europe's leading young string quartets, having performed at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Auditorio Sony, Conway Hall, and Museo del Violino, Cremona. The Quartet is a Resident Ensemble at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with Guenter Pichler and at the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam with Marc Danel. They have received mentoring from Quartetto di Cremona at the Stauffer Centre and have been privileged to work closely with Eberhard Feltz.
The Quartet has received awards including First Prize in the Royal Overseas League International Chamber Music Competition, Cavatina Chamber Music Competition and Triomphe de l’Art Competition in Belgium, Audience Prize at the Schiermonikoog Festival and the Special Prize of the Shostakovich Association in Paris. The Quartet also received the Peermusik Hamburg Prize and First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in London.
The Quartet frequently performs in association with ProQuartet in France and Dimore del Quartetto in Italy, and tours around the UK in their capacity as Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists.
Additionally, the Quartet regularly gives radio and television broadcasts including on Dutch National Television and BBC Radio 3. They were privileged to collaborate with Kaija Saariaho on a new recording of Terra Memoria made at the Barbican as part of the BBC Total Immersion series.
We are thrilled to have been awarded the RPS Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award 2023 and it feels like a significant moment in our journey to have this vote of confidence from such a historic, deeply respected, and ground-breaking organisation.
Bringing chamber music performances of the very highest quality to a huge range of audiences is what motivates us as an ensemble and this award will help us move closer to realising our dream of making our small niche of the performing arts world accessible to everyone. We intend to use this support to develop our skills through studying with international quartet performers and we look forward to benefiting from the expertise and connections that the RPS can offer through their unique network. We are buzzing with project ideas to present the repertoire we love to new audiences in new ways, and we are so excited to begin to realise these thanks to this fantastic support.