The Marmen Quartet (Please note EARLIER start time (6pm) for this concert)

Joseph Haydn

String Quartet Op. 33 No. 6 in D Major

Franz Schubert

Quartetsatz In C minor D703

Garth Knox

‘Secret Letters’ - New commission 

Leoš Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Cork cellist Sinead O’Halloran’s remarkable Marmen Quartet returns for a second tour for the National String Quartet Foundation. Their performances of Haydn’s quartets are becoming legendary and they start with his D major Quartet Op. 33 No. 6. At the heart of the concerts lie the first performances of a new quartet by acclaimed Dublin-born composer Garth Knox and they conclude with Janàček’s famously vivid and impassioned story of spiritual love.