Ten years of music celebrated at Warwick concert

The Heath Quartet will perform a programme of Mozart, Tippett and Beethoven as part of the national touring scheme Music in the Round.

They last played in the area for Leamington Music when they gave a concert at the Pump Rooms in Leamington in January. This was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast later in the summer.

Richard Phillips, of concert organiser Leamington music, said: “It will be a great pleasure to welcome the Heath Quartet back. Their first time here was over ten years ago when they were students at the Royal Northern College of Music and it was obvious that they would have a big future as a quartet. More top quartets have come out of Manchester in the last twenty years than any other music conservatoire.

“Music in the Round has added an extra dimension to music-making in the Warwick and Leamington area and the Heath Quartet follows on from the Lindsay, Belcea, Skampa, Elias and other names at the summit of the international scene.”

About 70 orchestral, chamber, early and choral music concerts have been listed on the Music to Your Ears website for the spring season with the Heath Quartet’s concert being among the first to take place across Warwickshire.

Professional musicians, orchestras, string quartets and choirs will feature in the packed programme with events taking place mainly in Warwick, Leamington and Stratford.

The season runs until mid-May and culminates with the Leamington Music Festival Weekend and the Kenilworth Festival.

Information about the various concerts will be published in forthcoming editions of The Courier and Weekly News.