PROGRAMME

Finzi; Five Bagatelles

Brahms; Clarinet Quintet in B min Op 115

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Keats Quartet

Based in London, Keats has performed at many prestigious occasions including a reception for HRH Duke of Edinburgh at the Cutty Sark, a private dinner for the First Sea Lord and Senior Naval Staff at Admiralty House, and for countless events at venues including The View From The Shard, HMS Belfast and Warwick Castle. The quartet has given many recitals nationally including at the Norwich Chamber Music Festival, Peterborough Cathedral, Glastonbury Abbey, Wells Cathedral; it has made several tours of the Scottish Borders with Borders LIVE Scheme, and performed abroad including in Malta's festival ‘Gaulitanus’ in Gozo.

Keats has recently enjoyed several projects with clarinettist Jonathan Sage, including performing Mozart's Quintet with basset clarinet, and a new commission written for the quintet by Irish composer Garrett Sholdice, Eighteen Cadences. The group has also enjoyed collaborations with composers Stuart Murray Mitchell, Lewis Wolstenholme who wrote them a quartet based on John Keats’ sonnet ‘When I Have Fears’, and with Robert Busiakiewicz, who wrote ‘Three’s a Crowd’ for Keats Trio.

Jonathan Sage

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Based in York, Jonathan is a versatile musician who divides his time between orchestral playing, chamber music, solo performance, pit work and teaching. As a concerto soloist he has appeared with orchestras including the London Mozart Players, Dartington Festival Orchestra, Scarborough Symphony Orchestra, Ergodos Orchestra and the orchestra of York Musical Society. He has given recitals throughout Europe and at festivals including the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Dartington International Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. As an orchestral musician, he performs with the London Mozart Players, New Mozart Orchestra, British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Scarborough Spa Orchestra; and as a chamber musician he performs regularly with groups including the Keats String Quartet, the Dr K Sextet and the Ergodos Musicians, with whom he has recorded extensively and toured in Europe and the USA.