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Church Classics Tour

Sarah Mc — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:57:51 +0000

Just back from a fantastic week in Ireland. We performed quintets with the amazing Sarah Beaty, giving the Irish premiere of the wonderful uplifting “Gumboots” by David Bruce and also bringing Golijov’s mesmerising “Dreams and prayers of Isaac the blind” to new audiences in the west of Ireland. It was truly inspiring to play this music in these beautiful churches to such warm and receptive audiences.

Chateau de Flawinne

Sarah Mc — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:22:45 +0000

Just back from a wonderful weekend performing at the Chateau de Flawinne… Also returned to the Muziekgebouw Fritz Philips in Eindhoven for a recital on Sunday afternoon. Now busy preparing for a week of school workshops in County Cork!

Ina Boyle String Quartet

Sarah Mc — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:43:31 +0000

Tune in to Lyric FM this morning at 11am to hear us performing Ina Boyle’s [...] Read the full entry »

Discovering the work of Irish composer Ina Boyle

Sarah Mc — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:29:11 +0000

We are very excited to be working on a little known quartet by the late Irish composer Ina Boyle. This piece, her only string quartet, was performed only once in her lifetime so it is a great honour to be involved in these concerts sharing her music with Irish audiences on the 4th, 5th and 6th of February.

New exciting collaboration ~

Sarah Mc — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:03:09 +0000

We have started rehearsing exciting new works by Ian Wilson with Mohammed Assani, the wonderful [...] Read the full entry »

New website

Sarah Mc — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:07:02 +0000

Welcome to our groovy new website!

Callino perform up North

Richard — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:05:02 +0000

Callino Quartet gave a recital in Darlington on the 17th April replacing the Vertavo Quartet [...] Read the full entry »

Tom Hankey

Richard — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:55:58 +0000

Tom Hankey studied the violin with David Takeno, Krzyzstof Smietana, Levon Chilingirian and Yossi Zivoni. As a chamber musician he has performed at major concert halls and festivals in Europe and Canada, and won prizes including the 2006 Royal Over-Seas League ensemble prize. He was a BBC Radio Three New Generation Artist with the Aronowitz Ensemble.

He is a member of the Na Mara Ensemble which specializes in the repertoire for string trio and piano quartet. The group regularly tours in Scotland and often collaborates with violinist/fiddler Donald Grant in mixed programmes of classical and folk music. He is also a member of the Kreisler Ensemble and the Sounds Underground Ensemble, both of which are committed to the performance of contemporary music.

As a soloist he has performed concertos by Prokofiev, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi. Tom has worked with the Britten Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, and as leader of Opera East, Iford Opera, and the Southbank Sinfonia.