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Technique: Quartet playing from the violist’s perspective

2025-10-24T09:08:00

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Alan George examines the techniques of chamber music playing from the violist’s seat

Starting out on a journey within a string quartet can be pretty daunting; it takes some tenacity and grit to try to make a go of it. My quartet, the Fitzwilliam Quartet, was rather thrown into the chamber music world by gaining a residency at the University of York in 1971, shortly after our graduation from Cambridge. This included a bursary to study…

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