27 April 2024

Concert Programme
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Selected movements from The Danish String Quartet’s “Wood Works”
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101
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Interval

Ravel: String Quartet.

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Concert Sponsors:  Arthur Campbell-Walter and the late Lee Brace,
​also Barton Marine and Copperfields

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 - Violin

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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 played the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Canterbury Orchestra, has enjoyed teaching chamber music at Junior RAM, is a permanent violinist with the Ulster Orchestra and is also currently playing in the West End for Phantom of the Opera.

Rebecca Perry - Violin

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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.

Laurie Dempsey - Viola

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Laurie Dempsey joined The Vandepeer Quartet recently (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 of 2021 and 2022. 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.

Joshua Lynch - Cello

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Joshua Lynch is also a recent addition to the Vandepeer Quartet and a former member of the Cassia String Quartet. Recipient of the Freda Dinn and Ida Marbett Award, St James Chamber Music Prize and Prix de musique de chambre Festival Ravel, he 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 and with Ursula Smith at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was mentored by Peter Cropper, Oliver Wille and Simon Rowland-Jones and participated in several European tours as part of the ‘Le Dimore del Quartetto’ and ‘Lincoln Center Stage’ networks, alongside performing at the Wigmore Hall, The Crucible (MitR) and St Martin-in-the-Field. He has also performed with the LSO and Britten Sinfonia. Away from performing, Joshua is a passionate teacher. He holds the position of cello tutor at the Stephen Perse Foundation and is a chamber music tutor at the Junior Guildhall. Joshua is also a regular tutor at ProCorda, Aboyne Cello Festival, NLMS Summer School and Cambridge Chamber Academy.