Hastings Chamber Music Festival - Elmore String Quartet: Unfurling
Kino-Teatr, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EQ
Friday 23rd October 2026 7:00PM
Curated by violinist Jane Gordon, this year’s ‘Transfiguration’ programme features outstanding international artists, rising talent and extraordinary music shaped by change, reflection, conflict and pacifism.
Elmore String Quartet: Unfurling
Music by Haydn , Bridge, Ravel, ’Unfurling’ Leo Geyer.
Haydn’s Op. 74/1 opens a programme that celebrates the extraordinary range and imagination of the string quartet. Leo Geyer’s new work, Unfurling, brings a fresh contemporary voice to the programme, while Bridge’s evocative setting of ‘LondonderryAir’ offers a brief glimpse into his deeply personal response to the world around him. At its heart is Ravel’s extraordinary String Quartet, a work of colour, imagination and astonishingrefinement, and one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire.
Winners of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League International Music Competition (2026), the Elmore Quartet are quickly gaining recognition as one of the leading British Quartets of their generation. They hold the position of Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, following a Fellowship position at the Royal Northern College of Music teaching chamber music to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
Over the past three years, the Elmore Quartet have recorded multiple times for BBC Radio 3 and performed at esteemed venues throughout the UK and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place London, Brighton Dome and Bridgewater Hall. In 2024, they wereawarded Third Prize at the 13th edition of the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Upcoming plans include an album release with Rubicon Classics in Autumn 2026 and further album projects with Heritage Records over the next few years.
Full Programme:
Haydn op.74/1
‘Unfurling’ Leo Geyer
Bridge ‘Londonderry Air’
Ravel String Quartet
+ Artists in Conversation: Meet the musicians and composer Leo Geyer in a pre-concert talk.
Elmore String Quartet: Unfurling
Music by Haydn , Bridge, Ravel, ’Unfurling’ Leo Geyer.
Haydn’s Op. 74/1 opens a programme that celebrates the extraordinary range and imagination of the string quartet. Leo Geyer’s new work, Unfurling, brings a fresh contemporary voice to the programme, while Bridge’s evocative setting of ‘LondonderryAir’ offers a brief glimpse into his deeply personal response to the world around him. At its heart is Ravel’s extraordinary String Quartet, a work of colour, imagination and astonishingrefinement, and one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire.
Winners of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League International Music Competition (2026), the Elmore Quartet are quickly gaining recognition as one of the leading British Quartets of their generation. They hold the position of Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, following a Fellowship position at the Royal Northern College of Music teaching chamber music to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
Over the past three years, the Elmore Quartet have recorded multiple times for BBC Radio 3 and performed at esteemed venues throughout the UK and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place London, Brighton Dome and Bridgewater Hall. In 2024, they wereawarded Third Prize at the 13th edition of the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Upcoming plans include an album release with Rubicon Classics in Autumn 2026 and further album projects with Heritage Records over the next few years.
Full Programme:
Haydn op.74/1
‘Unfurling’ Leo Geyer
Bridge ‘Londonderry Air’
Ravel String Quartet
+ Artists in Conversation: Meet the musicians and composer Leo Geyer in a pre-concert talk.
Event Details
Starts at 7:00PM
