Brodsky Quartet

As well as partnering many top classical artists, the quartet have pioneered ground-breaking collaborations with leading artists across many genres, such as Bjork, Elvis Costello and didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton. The group is distinguished by its unique longevity: founder members since childhood, Jacqueline and Ian were joined by Paul Cassidy in 1982. Krysia Osostowicz, having known and admired the Brodsky Quartet for many years, joined in 2021 and is enjoying the great adventure of playing and travelling all over the world with them. In recent years the Brodsky Quartet have toured throughout Europe and in Australia, New Zealand, China and Brazil. In addition to their core repertoire, including the Beethoven and Shostakovich quartet cycles, they have been delighting audiences with a programme of song arrangements together with the great operatic star Sir Willard White. A new recording with clarinettist Mark van de Weil of quintets by Mozart and Joseph Phibbs is due for release, and later this year the quartet will give a series of concerts at London’s Kings Place and the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Another highlight of 2026 will be several performances – including one in Penzance - of the Brodskys’ own special arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with poems read by Sir Michael Morpurgo.