The Tippett String Quartet

Introducing the performers…

John Mills (violin)
Jeremy Isaac (violin)
Lydia Northcot (viola)
Bozidar Vukotic (cello)

For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet have delighted critics and audiences alike with their animated, virtuosic performances and inspired and attractive programming. They have performed at the BBC Proms, Cheltenham Festival, Snape Proms and numerous festivals throughout the UK and abroad, including tours of Europe, Canada and Mexico. The quartet regularly appear at Kings Place, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Bridgewater Hall and frequently perform on BBC Radio 3. Alongside a busy touring schedule, the Tippett Quartet pursue a keen interest in educational work with both schools and universities and were Ensemble in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University for 2012-13. In September 2015 they began an exciting residency at Royal Holloway University, London.

Their broad and diverse repertoire highlights the Tippett Quartet’s unique versatility. They are equally at home with great Hollywood composers as they are with the giants of the classical world. With over twenty releases of recordings in their impressive catalogue, they have not only topped the classical charts but have also entered the pop charts and received universal critical acclaim. They have recorded for Naxos, EMI Classics, Signum, Classic FM, Guild, Real World, Dutton Epoch and Tocatta Classics. The quartet have given numerous world and UK premieres including works by John Adams, Howard Goodall and Stephen Dodgson. 2013 saw them rediscover Gustav Holst’s Fantasy on British Folk Songs which, with the help of the eminent musicologist Roderick Swanston, they were able to complete and give a world premiere to on BBC Radio 3. They also worked with Peter Maxwell-Davies for a performance of his 9th Quartet at the South Bank, with Anthony Payne on his Quartet no1 for a live BBC broadcast from Spitalfields Festival, and with Hugh Wood on his String Quartet no 3 at the Presteigne Festival.

The Tippett Quartet have had the great pleasure of collaborating with inspirational soloists such as Kathryn Stott, Craig Ogden, Stephanie Gonley, Lawrence Power, Melvin Tan, Nick van Bloss, Julian Bliss and Ashley Wass. In 2011 they celebrated the anniversary of the iconic film composer Bernard Herrmann by commissioning an arrangement of Psycho and performing it alongside his clarinet quintet, Souvenir de Voyages, and Echoes in a series of concerts and radio broadcasts. They have also performed with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden and have premiered a newly written film score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film classic The Lodger. In 2014 they started a collaboration with some of the UK’s finest Jazz musicians with the launch of their “Close To You” project – a tribute to the album that Frank Sinatra made with the Hollywood String Quartet. In 2015 they are now continuing this collaboration with “Hollywood Romance” featuring singer and broadcaster Claire Martin, OBE.

“The Tippett Quartet’s performances are little short of astonishing.”

The Times

“The Tippett Quartet’s performance had enormous cogency and power.”

The Guardian

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