Gildas Quartet


The Gildas Quartet is a British string quartet.

History

The Gildas Quartet formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2011. They have studied with Oliver Wille, Robin Ireland, and Catherine Manson, and have also benefited from masterclasses from Alfred Brendel, Paul Cassidy, Gabor Takacs Nagy, and András Keller, among others.
They have performed at major venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and Purcell Room. In 2013 they performed live on BBC Radio 3 program In Tune.
The Gildas Quartet were semi-finalists at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2018. The same year, the quartet received the Audience Engagement Award in the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition held in Graz.

Affiliations

The quartet are City Music Foundation Artists and Associate Ensemble at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Members

The Quartet consists of Christopher Jones, Gemma Sharples, Kay Stephen and Anna Menzies.