Join us from 2.30pm on Sunday 1st June when the doors at Elmslie will open to welcome back The Quattro String Quartet, this time joined by Irina Lyakhovskaya on the piano.
Irina Lyakhovskaya is a highly regarded pianist performing as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. She is a staff pianist and chamber music coach at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She has given many performances at leading international venues including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Symphony Hall, Cadogan Hall, Kings Place and St John’s Smith Square, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Smetana Hall and Porto Coliseum and at concert clubs and festivals across the UK. In 2016 – 2020 she was an Artist in Residence at Eastbourne Arts Centre where she performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas in a cycle of 8 concerts.
As a concerto soloist, she has performed works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Skryabin and Rachmaninov.
A passionate chamber musician, Irina performs regularly in recitals with many renowned performers, including cycles of complete violin works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Schubert. She has also recorded the complete Mozart sonatas with Malvern born violinist Eleanor Percy for the Melodiya label as well as sonatas by Brahms and Prokofiev for the IMLab label.
Quattro String Quartet, led by Eleanor Percy is a professional ensemble that has performed together for over 20 years. Based in London and the South of England, they have given many recitals across the UK.
They are all highly experienced chamber and orchestral musicians and teachers, working with orchestras such as the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Welsh National Opera. They have performed at leading international venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre and the Wigmore Hall.
Join them for an afternoon of beautiful chamber music, featuring well known and much loved works, introduced by the performers.