Kyan Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in D minor K. 421

Shostakovich: String Quartet in F sharp minor Op. 108

Interval

Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major Op. 41

Since their formation in 2020 at the Royal Academy of Music, and studying with some of the most illustrious chamber music performers, the Kyan Quartet have won numerous international prizes and have performed around the globe. We are delighted to welcome them to Wallingford to perform for us.

Mozart’s D minor string quartet is the second of the set of six works dedicated to Haydn. Some of the music was apparently written while the composer’s wife, Constanze, was in labour with their first child in the next room; a fact which may or may not account for the work’s emotional turbulence.