Celebrating the resurrection of live performances, the 2021 Highgate Festival opens with music by Béla Bartók and Antonin Dvořák in Highgate School's beautiful Victorian chapel.

COVID UPDATE. Since it looks unlikely that the final 'unlock' will happen on 21st June, we have restricted the audience numbers for this concert to 30. Since the Highgate chapels holds over 200 this means that you will be extremely well socially distanced. Following track and trace guidelines, there will be a QR code for you to log into at the chapel or, if you do not have the QR code, we will be taking names and addresses with a good old fashioned pen and paper.

The Corran Quartet

 Joana Ly, violin
Laura Rickard, violin
Rebecca Breen, viola 
Molly McWhirter, cello

Programme:

Bartók String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor
Dvorák String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor 'The American’

There will be drinks available in the courtyard before the performance. NOTA BENE! We are offering a FREE GLASS of WINE at each concert to anyone booking for  two of more of our four Salon Music concerts at the festival. 

The Festival would like to thank Highgate School, their music director Jonathan Murphy  and the chaplain, Father Robert Easton for generously allowing us to use their lovely 19th century Gothic chapel for so many of our concerts.

The Festival will run from the 19th-27th June. Please check in to the festival website for more events.

About the players:
Portuguese Joana Ly started playing the violin aged 4. Her studies brought her to the UK and the Netherlands where she now plays chamber music, teaches and freelances with orchestras in London.
English Laura Rickard studied in Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music and now enjoys an active career as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a founding member of Mila Piano Trio and artistic director of the Romsey Chamber Music Festival.
Irish Rebecca Breen is a Masters graduate of the Royal College of Music. She has worked with major orchestras in London and Ireland and teaches at both Royal Academy and Guildhall School of Music.
Scottish Molly McWhirter recently obtained her Masters in Performance with Distinction at the Guildhall School of Music. Orchestral highlights include work with Scottish Ballet, Heritage Orchestra, London Concertante, Ensemble Cymru and Sinfonia Cymru.