Kleio Quartet
About the Kleio Quartet
First Prize and Commission Prize winners at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition 2023, the Kleio Quartet are quickly establishing themselves as an internationally-recognised quartet. They formed at the Seiji Ozawa International Chamber Academy in 2019.The Kleio Quartet have performed in major international venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Victoria Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the DR Koncerthuset, the Black Diamond in Copenhagen and many others.
The Kleio Quartet is particularly grateful to have received support and mentorship from Eckart Runge and Alina Ibragimova as well as from John Myerscough thanks to ChamberStudio’s Mentorship Scheme. They have also received coaching from world-renowned chamber musicians Sadao Harada, Nobuko Imai, Pamela Frank, Simon Rowland-Jones, György Kurtàg and Oliver Wille.
Kleio Quartet lulled our audience into a tender sense of tranquillity with a serene performance of their opening piece, Puccini’s Crisantemi. They then launched with gusto into a thrilling performance of Beethoven’s most condensed string quartet, the ‘Serioso’ in F Minor Op 95. For all the energy, abrupt changes of direction, tempo and key, they still captured the many nuances of this subtle work. Britten’s Three Divertimenti, ostensibly a minor work left unpublished until after his death, was a revelation of clarity and coherence, uncovering the very good quartet it might have become. The Kleio closed with a spirited and moving rendering of Mendelssohn’s substantial third Op 44 quartet in E Flat major with tremendous panache, finesse and energy..