Fibonacci Quartet
About the Fibonacci Quartet
The Fibonacci Quartet are one of Europe’s leading young string quartets. Based in the UK and formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the quartet hold residencies at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with Günter Pichler and at the Dutch String Quartet Academy with Marc Danel, and frequently perform in association with ProQuartet in Paris.
Prolific competition winners, the Quartet have received numerous awards including both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 13th ‘Premio Paolo Borciani’ International String Quartet Competition in 2024, First Prize in the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in the Cavatina Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in the International Triomphe de l’Art Competition in Belgium, The Kirckman Society Award, Audience Prize at the Schiermonnikoog Festival and the Special Prize of the Shostakovich Association in Paris.
A busy 2024/25 season has seen the Quartet perform extensively throughout the UK and mainland Europe. They will also have residencies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff and Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh.
The Fibonacci Quartet are generously supported by the Escuela Reina Sofía, the Hattori Foundation, Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre in Paris and Talent Unlimited. The quartet are the current YCAT Hans Keller Artist, supported by the Cosman Keller Art & Music Trust.
About the Concert
Luna de Mol led in the opening late Mozart quartet, which was played with grace and delicacy, and while it showcased the cello part, designed to appeal to its dedicatee, the balance of the ensemble was flawless. Kryštof Kohout took the lead role for the remaining pieces, which continued with a thrilling performance of Janáček’s ‘Intimate Letters’ quartet, which explores in unsparing detail the composer’s unrequited love for Kamila Stösslová, a married woman. Emotions range from tender lyricism through yearning and intense passion to anguish and despair, not from movement to movement (as in the closing Tchaikovsky quartet, for example) but from moment to moment; a moving, unique and original contribution to the string quartet repertoire. The concert closed with Tchaikovsky’s Third Quartet in memory of a recently deceased friend and colleague. This work, while showcasing the composer’s melodic genius and instinct for ballet, also reveals an intuitive understanding of quartet form, which the Fibonacci exploited with exquisitely sensitive and expressive ensemble playing. Throughout these performance, the violins sparkled and soared, Findlay Spence’s cello had real warmth both in ensemble and solo, and the contribution and projection of Elliot Kempton’s viola were all exceptional.