We’re very sad to report that after playing with the quartet for the last four years John has decided to move on to pursue other musical opportunities. We’re sorry to see him go, but excited to see what he does next. He’s still in the Cambridge area so we’ll undoubtedly be bumping into him from ...
We’ve not posted anything on here for a while, but the quartet have been far from quiet this year, in fact it’s been one of the busiest (and slightly chaotic) periods we’ve ever had. The quartet family expanded in two linked ways this year. Carmen took a break from the quartet for a few months ...
It’s been a while since we’ve added an update to these pages, but the quartet haven’t been resting – we’ve had a busy and productive summer. As usual, our summer activities have been a varied mix of mostly outdoor activities. We started off by returning to Maddingly Hall to play for the Arthur Rank Hospice ...
The quartet have a long standing relationship with the village of Little Wilbraham. We have played at their summer fair for the last few years and have said for a while that it would be good to find an excuse to do a more formal event in the village. After last summer’s fair we were ...
A slightly truncated Christmas for the quartet this year as all of the group were playing in the CAT theatre company’s production of the Wizard of Oz (with Maria as the MD), but as we had a few new Christmas arrangements (again, mostly courtesy of Maria) we couldn’t go through the season without playing them ...
After a busy summer one of the things left on the quartet’s todo list for 2014 was to arrange another recording session. We hadn’t produced any recordings since John joined the quartet so we wanted to have some new material which better represented our current line up. We had a gap in our schedules in ...
The quartet are always up for trying something different. After previous forays into accompanying djembe drumming, or providing background music for a blood-soaked classical play we recently took on a new challenge – shadow puppetry! A few months ago we acquired a sax quartet arrangement of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” where each of the ...
One of the aims for the quartet this year was to do more concert performances, and particularly to host some of our own concerts. Earlier in the year we had done this with our evening at the Cambridge Tennis Club, and we were keen to do more of these. Back at the end of 2013 ...
The quartet were back at Queens’ college this week (note that I’ve now been instructed in the proper placement of the apostrophe – there were two Queens!). We’ve previously played for fellows’ events, a garden party, a May ball and provided incidental music for a show at the college so it was good to be ...
I realise I’m a little late writing this up, but I thought I’d share some of the activities the quartet got up to over the Christmas period. In the run up to the festive season we’d been expanding our Christmas repertoire (mostly due to a slew of great new arrangements from Maria) to the point ...
