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27 September 2025Time 7:30pm.
Tickets £18, students half-price. |
Concert Programme
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade
Ravel: String Quartet
Interval
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 132
Ravel: String Quartet
Interval
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 132
CONCERT SPONSORS: Nick Nops
Sacconi Quartet
For over two decades, the Sacconi Quartet have been captivating audiences with their unanimous and compelling ensemble, consistently communicating with a fresh and imaginative approach. Formed in 2001, the four founder members share an unwavering passion for the string quartet repertoire, infectiously reaching out to audiences with their energy and enthusiasm. The Sacconis enjoy a busy international career, performing regularly across the world, at Europe’s major venues, in recordings and on radio broadcasts. The Sacconi is Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music and Quartet in Residence for the town of Folkestone. Unchanged since its inception, Sacconi is Britain’s longest-established string quartet.
Ben Hancox
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Ben Hancox is the leader and founder member of the Sacconi Quartet. Since their formation at the Royal College of Music in 2001, the quartet has won international competitions and has toured extensively in Britain and abroad.
Having started playing at the age of four, he studied violin with Faith Whiteley and Serguei Fatkouline, and with Felix Andrievsky at the Royal College of Music. At the RCM Ben won both the major violin prizes. He left with a first class honours degree and was awarded a distinction in his postgraduate diploma in performance. |
Hannah Dawson
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Hannah was very fortunate to be born into a house full of music. At that time, her mother was a violinist in the LPO, and her father an opera singer. Her passion for playing music with others was ignited by violin duets with her mother, and later on by becoming a member of a chamber orchestra ‘National Isis String Academy’, and the Kent County Youth Orchestra where she met Ben and Robin. She started violin lessons with Howard Davis at the age of 14. He was a very inspirational teacher, and encouraged her to be less inhibited and to really communicate with her playing.
She then studied with Ani Schnarch at the Royal College of Music, and it was there that she joined the quartet in her 2nd year. |
Robin Ashwell
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Robin Ashwell is well known as the viola player of the Sacconi Quartet, one of the UK’s finest string quartets. With the Quartet, he made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2004, and since then has performed at all of London’s major venues, broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3 and appeared on numerous CDs.
With the Sacconi Quartet, Robin has collaborated with some of the world’s finest musicians, including Mark Padmore, Pekka Kuusisto, Melvyn Tan, Guy Johnston, Alasdair Beatson, Tom Poster, Bellowhead’s Jon Boden and actor Timothy West, and has premiered works by Jonathan Dove, John McCabe, Graham Fitkin, György Kurtág, Paul Patterson, Simon Rowland-Jones, Robin Holloway, John Metcalf and Alun Hoddinot. |
Cara Berridge
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Playing in the Sacconi Quartet takes up most of Cara's life, rehearsing, performing, writing emails etc! Having had the same members since they started together in 2001 has been very intense but wonderful exploring the repertoire and the world together.
Quartet life is busy but when the chance arises, Cara enjoys other music challenges including playing in a piano trio which meets a few times every year for rehearsal and concert periods and also playing duo repertoire with various pianists. Cara also plays in chamber orchestras such as Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Britten Sinfonia, Aurora Orchestra and London Chamber Orchestra. |
Sacconi Quartet
Beethoven op 131 staged by Sacconi Quartet & Tom Morris 1080p |
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major |
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