St James Quintet

Name:	St James Quintet
Group Type:	Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon and Horn)
Location:	London United Kingdom NW1
Contact:	Ellen - 07846426706 www.stjamesquintet.co.uk Send St James Quintet a message

Additional Info:

We are available for background music/concerts etc for any kind of function. We are able to create smaller groups within the Quintet.

Winners of the Ensemble Prize at the 2009 Royal Overseas League Music Competition, the St James Quintet was formed in 2007 from students at the Royal Academy of Music for a performance at St James Palace for the awarding of the Queen’s Anniversary Medal.

Since then the quintet has appeared regularly in performances both at the Academy and beyond. In 2008, as part of the BBC Proms they gave the UK Premiere of Anders Hillborg’s ‘Six Pieces for Wind Quintet’ which was later broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

They made their Southbank debut in 2009 performing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall before going on to appear in recitals at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and in a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’. The quintet has performed for HRH The Princess Royal, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Harrison Birtwhistle.

Appointed Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music in 2009 the quintet was also awarded the Philharmonia Orchestra / Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Ensemble Award and were made Concordia Foundation Artists in that year.

They performed at the Purcell Room in November 2009 and will make their Wigmore Hall debut in November 2010.

Additional Specialisms:

Early Music, Contemporary Music, Functions / Events, Background Music