Johannes Marmen, violin
Laia Valentin Braun, violin
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Sinéad O'Halloran, cello

Haydn, Quartet Op.76 No.4 Sunrise
Sam Perkin, My Young Love Was Gone (2016 rev 2024)
Bartók, Quartet No.3
Beethoven, Quartet Op.135

With the courage, vitality and intensity of its performances, the Marmen Quartet is fast establishing itself as one of the most impressive and engaging talents in chamber music, demonstrated by recent first prizes at the prestigious Bordeaux and Banff International String Quartet Competitions.

The quartet brings its energy and intelligence to an impressive range of repertoire, ranging from Haydn to music of today. Last season they gave the world premiere of Garth Knox’s Secret Letters, written for them as a companion piece to Janáček’s Intimate Letters. Previous commissions have included Salina Fisher’s Heal, composed for them in the wake of the pandemic, and they made their Australian debut in 2023, playing a work written for them by Hannah Kendall as part of the Australian National Academy of Music’s Quartetthaus project. They are currently working on a new project with composer Samuel Adams and percussionist DOMNIQ.