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25 April 2026Time 7:30pm.
Tickets £20, students half-price. |
Concert Programme
Mendlessohn: String Quartet No.2 Op.13 in A Minor
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Interval
Schubert: String Quartet No.14 D810 “Death and the Maiden”
The Danish String Quartet: Two Movements from Woodworks
Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte
Interval
Schubert: String Quartet No.14 D810 “Death and the Maiden”
The Danish String Quartet: Two Movements from Woodworks
CONCERT SPONSORS: Samphire Restaurant, Gill Smyth
Vandepeer Quartet
The Vandepeer Quartet was founded in 2013 at RNCM, where they were finalists in the Weil Prize Competition and won the John Barbirolli/Laurence Turner Prize for String Quartet. Coached by Leonard Elschenbroich, Sara Bitloch, Petr Prause, The Elias Quartet and The Gould Quartet, they performed recitals at Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Festival, Montepulciano, Italy; Dvorak Piano Quintet with Daniel Tong at Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival; and premiered contemporary pieces at Wigmore Hall. United by their love and passion for chamber music, all four members of The Vandepeer Quartet are also accomplished musicians in their own right, forging varied and interesting careers.
Ana Vandepeer
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Founder of the Vandepeer Quartet, Ana Vandepeer is a versatile musician with
orchestral, chamber, solo performance and West End musicals experience. A former music scholar at St Edmund’s in Canterbury, when she won the Marlowe Young Musician 2012, Ana studied at Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Anna-Lisa Bezrodny, at Royal Northern College of Music with Catherine Yates and at Royal Academy of Music with Sasha Sitkovetsky and Joshua Fisher. She is very fortunate to have access to an Italian violin generously sponsored by Mrs Gill Smyth. Ana was leader of Brixton Chamber Orchestra, toured China as guest leader of Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra and led RNCM and RAM ensembles under Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Oliver Knussen, Semyon Byshkov, and Gareth Hancock. She also played the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Canterbury Orchestra, and has enjoyed teaching chamber music at Junior RAM. As a permanent violinist with the Ulster orchestra, Ana sits up as co-lead and this month they performed at Concertgebow in Amsterdam. She has also played with National Symphony Orchestra Ireland and continues to play chamber music for radio and recitals around Ireland. |
Rebecca Perry
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Rebecca Perry is the co-founder of the Vandepeer Quartet. An Australian born
violinist, she graduated with BMus(Hons) from Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied with Sasha Sitkovetsky and during which time Rebecca played with Kaleidoscope Orchestra and Manchester Camerata among others, and regularly performed in various venues across the UK, including the Wigmore Hall. Since moving to Germany in 2019, Rebecca has played with Sinfonietta Leipzig, Musikalische Komodie/ Oper Leipzig and MDR Sinfonieorchester. She has recently participated in tours with Philharmonie Leipzig, across the country playing at Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg ElbPhilharmonie and Stuttgart Liederhalle. Rebecca currently has a contract with Würth Philharmoniker in Baden-Württemberg. Since September 2024, Rebecca has had a contract with MDR-Sinfonieorchester and in 2025 Rebecca joined the Shostakovich festival, playing alongside Gewandhaus Orchester & Boston Symphony. |
Laurie Dempsey
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Manchester based and trained, Laurie Dempsey is a violinist/violist who has enjoyed
working all over the UK and beyond, stretching as far as Delhi. Laurie Dempsey joined The Vandepeer Quartet a couple of years ago (he is a former member of The Cassia String Quartet). He studied at Chetham’s School of Music, graduated from Royal Northern College of Music with BMus(Hons) where in 2013 finished his Postgraduate Diploma. Laurie studied with Prof. Mark Knight and Susie Mészáros and had masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Thomas Reibl and Garth Knox. An experienced chamber musician, Laurie performed Colin Matthew’s second quartet at the Wigmore Hall, took part in the Cantiere Internatzionale D'arte Festival in Montepulciano, Italy and worked under Peter Cropper, Robin Ireland, James Boyd, Oliver Wille and Christoph Richter. Laurie performed with Manchester Camerata and Kaleidoscope Orchestra, was a guest soloist at the RNCM contemporary music festival and a member of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular cast since 2021, which he led in 2024 and 2025. A versatile musician, Laurie has performed and recorded with artists such as John Cale of The Velvet Underground, Chas Smash of Madness and Lewis Capaldi. Laurie also spends time recording, composing, arranging and performing for a number of ensembles throughout the North West. More recently, he has played for the UK 'Hamilton' tour among other musicals, remaining a chamber musician at heart. |
Joshua Lynch
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Recipient of the Freda Dinn and Ida Marbett Award, St James Chamber Music Prize,
and Prix de Musique de Chambre Festival Ravel, Joshua Lynch is a passionate devotee of chamber music and has already enjoyed a diverse and creative career. Joshua studied with Emma Ferrand and Gillian Thoday at the Royal Northern College of Music, before continuing his training with Ursula Smith at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also enjoyed mentoring by Peter Cropper, Oliver Wille, and Simon Rowland-Jones. Joshua has enjoyed several European tours as part of the ‘Le Dimore del Quartetto’ network, and has performed at Wigmore Hall, The Crucible (Music in the Round), and St Martin-in-the-Fields. He is a member of the Cambridge Chamber Collective, and has appeared at festivals such as Grassington, Festival Ravel, Salisbury International Arts Festival, and Swaledale. In addition to his chamber music work, Joshua has also performed with Britten Sinfonia and the London Symphony Orchestra. A dedicated and experienced educator, Joshua holds teaching positions at the Stephen Perse Foundation and St John’s College School, Cambridge, and maintains a thriving private studio. He is also a regular tutor at the Aboyne Cello Festival, Cambridge Camerata Academy, Grittleton, NLMS Summer School, and ProCorda. |
