Spotlight Chamber Concerts: Maxwell String Quartet and Anthony Friend

Winter 2023
This winter Spotlight Chamber Concerts returns to the ‘beautifully restored church of St John’s Waterloo’ (Observer). Five world-class classical music concerts offer an intense, immersive experience of live music, with dramatic lighting centred only on the performers, and the audience in the dark and in the round.

“An unforgettable experience…a bright light in a dim world”

Clarinettist and Artistic Director Anthony Friend, praised for his ‘delicious’ playing (The Times) and the ‘vision and intensity’ of his performances (Observer) joins regular collaborators the Maxwell String Quartet, noted for their ‘wit, charisma and a sense of adventure’ (New York Times) and ‘fresh, unaffected playing’ (Gramophone). Following two albums pairing of Scottish folk music with Haydn, here they present their EP Gather, a ‘musical foraging project’ of Scots folk music, alongside Brahms’s profound and folk-influenced Clarinet Quintet.