The young Kleio String Quartet are quickly establishing themselves internationally and in April 2023 won First Prize at the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition.
The Kleio Quartet have performed in major international venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Victoria Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the DR Koncerthuset and the Black Diamond in Copenhagen, among many others.
In 2023 they held a Residency at Snape Maltings' Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and look forward to a series of residencies hosted by the Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam from 2023 to 2025, and at ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre for the season 2023-24.
The quartet were selected for the Tunnell Trust’s Music Club Awards Scheme 2022-23 and are Kirckman Concert Society Young Artists for 2023-24. They have also been selected to join the European Merita platform (which promotes young string quartets) for 2023-2025.
Wynton Marsalis (b 1961, New Orleans) is a multi award winning American trumpeter, composer and educator. He has won nine Grammys and a Pulitzer prize (the first for a jazz composition), and is currently Managing and Artistic Director for Jazz at the Lincoln Center and Director of Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School in New York. We will have a taster of his work with two movements from his first string quartet (composed in 1999), which explores American Creole culture.