Alba String Quartet

Alba String Quartet

The Alba String Quartet

The Alba String Quartet was formed by students of the RSAMD in Summer 2003. It comprises 4 young Scottish musicians: Liam Lynch and Stewart Webster (violins), Hannah Craib (viola) and Robert Anderson (cello). The Albas have performed throughout the UK, including a week-long residency at St Andrew's University, and concerts at the 2006 St Magnus Festival in Orkney ("... [The Alba String Quartet] ...fielded a finely judged account of Debussy's String Quartet in G minor with real musical skill" [ [http://living.scotsman.com/music.cfm?id=895472006 "The Scotsman" newspaper 19/6/06] ] ). They have recorded for the BBC and broadcast a New Year concert on local Hungarian television. They have performed to, among others, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bill Gates and Tony Blair. The Albas are the current recipients of the EMS [ [http://www.emusicscotland.co.uk/ Enterprise Music Scotland] ] two-year scholarship.

Past members:
*Miriam McFadyen (2nd violin, 2003/04)
*Emma Stevenson (viola, 2003/04)
*Veronika Toth (viola, 2004/06)

[http://www.albaquartet.com Official Website] [http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.2361961.0.west_end_festival_mendelssohns_octet_oran_mor.php Herald Review, Mendelssohn "Octet"]

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