The Piatti Quartet

The Piattis are amongst the UK’s foremost young string quartets, with a host of awards and a critically-acclaimed recording to their name. They have performed in all the major venues around the country including a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast from the Wigmore Hall; the Quartet has also appeared in Australia, Spain, Austria, Ireland, France, Switzerland and Holland.

The Piatti are winners of the St Martin in the Fields Competition, a Martin Musical Fund/Philharmonia Scholarship, multiple Hattori Foundation awards, and the St.Peter’s Prize. The Quartet spent two years as Leverhulme Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music and have received both Tunnel Trust and Countess of Munster awards. Park Lane Group have also supported the group extensively, with a concert tour and a recording on their Classical Label. Other recordings have been released on the Linn Records and Champs Hill labels including a CD of three Mozart piano concerti in their rarely heard chamber versions with Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch.

The Piatti Quartet has been actively engaged in expanding the repertoire with newly-commissioned works from British composers such as Joseph Phibbs, Richard Birchall and Jacques Cohen to be premiered next season. Other forthcoming plans include a residency at the Rye Festival, tours of Scotland and Ireland and new recording projects. They have been fortunate to study at the Reina Sofia Institute in Madrid with Günter Pichler and have also worked with members of the Chilingirian, Doric and Hagen Quartets.

The Quartet takes its name from the great 19th-century cellist Alfredo Piatti, who was a leading professor at the the Royal Academy of Music.