Story by Liam Togher
THE award-winning Arcadia Quartet will begin its Irish tour on Tuesday November 26 in the intimate setting of All Saints church in Castleconnell.
This spectacular quartet is made up of violinists Ana Torok and Răsvan Dumitru, Traian Boală on viola and Szlot Torok on cello, and originally came together in 2005 while its founding members were still students at the reputed Gheorghe Dima Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca in Romania.
The Arcadia Quartet won the London International String Quartet Competition last year and can also count amongst its honours the Almere International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, the International Chamber Music Competition, Hamburg in 2009, the Esterhazy Prize and the Beethoven Prize.
Arcadia has performed in venues across the world, rapidly establishing itself as one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation.
Their programme will include one of Haydn’s finest quartets, No. 64 in D major, Op. 76 No. 5, called the Largo Quartet because of the meditative slow movement, along with Debussy’s Op. 10 in G minor,his only string quartet..
The concert starts at 8pm on November 26 and and admission is payable at the door for those wishing to attend and be the first to hear this decorated young quartet in Ireland.
This is the last in the Castleconnell Concert series, an initiative of Limerick County Arts Office initiated by retired county arts officer Joan Mac Kernan with assistance from The Arts Council.
