Musical Chairs

19. June 2017 News, Photos 0
Musical Chairs
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 ...

The extended quartet family

17. December 2016 Concerts, News, Photos 0
The extended quartet family
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 ...

Love is here to stay

14. February 2016 Concerts 0
Love is here to stay
The quartet have been taking on a larger number of church concerts recently with performaces last year in Haslingfield and Barton and we were delighted to be invited to play at Dry Drayton which was a venue none of us had been to before. The church in Dry Drayton as it turns out is a ...

Around the world

25. September 2015 Concerts 0
Around the world
The quartet were very happy to be invited back to Barton church to present another concert to help raise money for the church. It’s always nice to do some more formal concerts as it gives us a chance to pull out some of the more extravagant parts of our repertoire which don’t work well as ...

Swinging into Summer

26. July 2015 Concerts, News, Photos 0
Swinging into Summer
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 ...

Supper and Sax

09. February 2015 Concerts, Photos 0
Supper and Sax
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 ...

Into the Christmas spirit

09. February 2015 Concerts, Photos 0
Into the Christmas spirit
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 ...

Recording some cool music

09. February 2015 News, Photos 0
Recording some cool music
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 wolves of Wilburton

20. September 2014 Concerts, Photos 0
The wolves of Wilburton
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 ...

Balls and Proms

27. June 2014 Concerts, News 0
It’s May ball time again!  For the last few years the quartet have been fortunate enough to play at a number of different college events, and this year we visited some new venues as we were booked to play at three May balls during May week. We started the week playing at Newnham college.  We ...