Flinders Quartet is instantly recognisable as one as Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the twenty-first century, Flinders continues their second decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity. Their have audiences and critics articulating their esteem, and the quartet is now a highly respected force in Australian chamber music.
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Musicians
- Shane Chen & Nicholas Waters (violin)
- Helen Ireland (viola)
- Zoe Knighton (cello)
Flinders Quartet’s concerts
Reviews and interviews with Flinders Quartet
Flinders Quartet brought to life a vivid picture of Shostakovich through the lens of his string quartets
Unfortunately it’s not often that you see concert programmes combining the spoken word with live…
Flinders Quartet 2019 Composer Development Program participants announced
Launching from a supremely successful inaugural composer workshop in 2016, Flinders Quartet’s (FQ) Composer Development…
Flinders Quartet launch their 2019 season!
On a stormy Melbourne evening the Flinders Quartet gathered at a familiar venue, fortyfivedownstairs, for…
Flinders Quartet was perfectly balanced for the theatrical nature of the works
Two Australian composers were featured in the Flinders Quartet concert at Independent Theatre more as…
The Flinders’ Quartet on Collins #2 displays a tight ensemble with exemplary intonation
Lunchtime concerts in the CBD are wonderful for city workers, being so close for so…
Flinders Quartet’s Schubert in the South was over too soon
Flinders Quartet is such a well-established ensemble on the Melbourne, and indeed Australian, music scene…
Flinders Quartet: The Magic of Paul Dean
An excellent concert and experience. The concert had variety, intensity, lyric beauty, passion and wit in the excellent playing and tight ensemble.
Flinders Quartet in Sydney
Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 3 September 2014 Schubert – String Quartet No 13 in…
Flinders Quartet: Quartet Bliss
I haven’t been to the Opera House since my older sister (now 29) played there…
Flinders Quartet danced the night away
Watching Edwards hold 4 mallets, playing the triangle & using her feet to hit a drum was truly impressive. One can only imagine how many beers she could hold in a pub without using a tray.
Personal stories resonate as deeply as the notes
Flinders Quartet’s performance & delivery of Joyce’s Mob – a truly beautiful & intimate work. I loved the detail. It was so rich & interesting!
Pondering: What influences our enjoyment of music performed live?
I recently found myself in a concert attending frenzy. In the midst of this I…
Flinders Quartet – colour & atmosphere
If there were two words that united this marvellous evening it’s the words, ‘colour’ and…
Behind Closed Doors: Flinders Quartet & Red Stitch
Last night there was a classikON Reserve at Behind Closed Doors at the Utzon Room…
Zoe Knighton talks about Flinders Quartet and Red Stitch
This is a sneak peak into the behind the scenes of the Flinders Quartet’s collabroation…
Flinders Quartet award at SIPCA
At the Sydney International Piano Competition, the Flinders Quartet awarded an amazing prize to one…
Flinders @ Utzon
Last night, a group of ClassikON-ers attended ‘Silent Inspiration’, the second in this year’s concert series by the Flinders Quartet. It goes without saying that the thoughtfully chosen pieces that were executed with such passion and precision were loved by all of us that attended.
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