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Bochmann Quartet

Michael Bochmann, Mark Messenger violins
Helen Roberts viola
Peter Adams cello


Originally founded in 1977, the Bochmann String Quartet has performed on extensive international tours for more than a decade. They have made over 50 BBC broadcasts and numerous recordings,  currently undertake regular European tours and perform in London's concert halls and throughout the UK.  They have also been joined by many leading international chamber musicians including Robert Cohen, Raphael Wallfisch, Yonty Solomon and Jeremy Menuhin


The Quartet regularly commissions new works for string quartet, has performed several world premieres of new pieces and champions the work of many contemporary composers including Paul Patterson (Quartet performed across Europe); George Nicholson (3rd Quartet in 1995 funded by the Arts Council which was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and later recorded); John Dankworth (Dreams 42 1997); Francis Routh (Divertimento 1998, also recorded); Stephen Roberts (Pantomime Suite 1999, also recorded); Keith Burstein (The Year's Midnight, June 2002 premiere at St. John's Smith Square with the Zemel Choir, recorded for BBC Radio 4 as part of a service commemorating the Holocaust in January 2001).


The Bochmann's recordings include Janacek's Intimate Letters and Martinu's Quartet No. 2 (selected as Critic's Choice in the Daily Telegraph), three critically accliamed discs for the Redcliffe Recordings series of British Music and Mozart, Beethoven and Dvorak Quartets on the Disque D'Or Collection.  


"Their grasp of Mozart and Beethoven is undisputed" The Scotsman

The Barns, Village Farm,
Ford, near Cheltenham GL54 5RU

Tel: 01386 584539

Cambrian House
22 Crouch Street
Banbury
OX16 9PP