Regency Quartet

Mabelle Young-Eun Park violin

Olwen Miles violin

Jamie Howe viola

TBC cello

Benjamin Britten Three Divermenti

Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 ‘Serioso’

Interval

Joseph Haydn String Quartet B minor Op. 33 No. 1

Frank Bridge String Quartet No. 4, H. 188

The Regency String Quartet was formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021 and comprises of scholars at London conservatoires. The quartet was generously supported by the Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme from 2021-2024 through the Royal Academy of Music. They recently won the Royal Overseas League Strings and Keyboard Ensembles Category 2025 and have also been selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society Artists.

The quartet is coached and mentored by Alex Redington from the Doric String Quartet and also receives coachings from Jon Thorne, So-Ock Kim, and Simon Rowland-Jones. They have participated in masterclasses with renowned musicians including Anthony Marwood, Lawrence Power, Isabel Charisius, Sini Simonen and Tim Frederikson.

The quartet has been awarded a number of prizes from the Royal Academy of Music including the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize and the Historical Women Composers Prize for their rendition of Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A minor.

In 2023, the quartet was selected by the Royal Academy of Music for the prestigious Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme. During their visit to Hong Kong through the programme, they enjoyed masterclasses with musicians from the Lincoln Centre’s Chamber Music Society along with Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom from the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2025, The Regency String Quartet participated in the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, studying with Kim Kashkashian.

The quartet took part in the Royal Academy of Music’s Chamber Music Festival in 2023, working with Elena Urioste and Tom Poster from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. They have given recitals at the Mill Hill Music Festival, St James’s Piccadilly, the Royal Academy of Music and the Young Artists’ Platform in London. Collaborative performances include a String Sextet concert of Tchaikovsky and Brahms for the Oxshott and Cobham Music Society, harp chamber music by Arnold Bax in London venues and a performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet in Derby. They have also led a series of outreach workshops in Devon Schools as part of the Two Moors Festival.

The quartet will hold a series of concerts in France as part of the Ferrandou Musique residency. Upcoming engagements include recitals in Conway Hall and Kings Place in Autumn 2025, and performances in Kings Lynn and North Norfolk in 2026.

Season supported by Margaret Polmear in memory of Andrew Polmear

In Association with Strings Attached