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• IKON Arts Management is delighted to announce the recent signing of the Tippett Quartet, one of Britain's leading young string quartets.

Please contact Costa Peristianis costa@ikonarts.com

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• The Tippett Quartet are featured in (and on the cover of) the current issue of Classical Music Magazine

please contact IKON if you'd like to see a copy!

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• Tippett Quartet record complete Tippett Quartets for NAXOS

2007 saw the start of a two-year project to record all five of Sir Michael Tippett’s string quartets. Disc one will comprise of quartets 1, 2 and 4 and will be released in 2008. The second will be released in 2009 and will contain quartets 3 and 5.

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• Wigmore Hall – July 6th 2008

The Tippett Quartet returns to the Wigmore Hall with an exciting programme of Beethoven op. 131 and Tippett Quartet No. 2. They will be joined by soprano Grace Davidson for the UK Premiere of “Morning”, David Braid’s haunting setting of Pablo Neruda’s poem Mañana.

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• Tippett Quartet complete Stephen Dodgson recording project for Dutton Epoch

After premiering String Quartet No. 6 at the Cheltenham International Music Festival the Tippett Quartet began a relationship with the British composer to record all nine of his quartets and other chamber music. The project started in 2006 with the 1st disc being released in 2007 (CDLX 7182) “dispatched with vigour and incisiveness” (Sunday Times). The second will be released in 2008 and the third, which allowed the quartet to collaborate with guitarist Craig Ogden, in 2009.