Hugh Mackay, Cello, Junyan Chen, Piano, Charlotte Spruit, Violin, and Edgar Francis, Viola An Ensemble of four leading young artists unified by a passion for chamber music coming to Scotland for a six-concert tour. Scottish cellist Hugh Mackay trained at St. Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and then the Royal Academy of Music, winning there the inaugural LSO Conservatoire Scholarship. Pianist Junyan Chen studied at the Shanghai Conservatoire, and later at the Royal Academy of Music in London, coming to fame on winning Second Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition 2024. Violinist Charlotte Spruit won the first prize and the audience prize in the 2022 Leipzig International Bach Competition and won the Young Classical Artists Trust International Auditions in 2023. Welsh violist Edgar Francis studied at Wells Cathedral School before completing two degrees at the Royal Academy of Music in London; in 2021 he won First Prize at the Cecil Aronowitz International Competition. Schumann Piano Quartet Enescu Piano Quartet No. 2 Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

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