The quartet were winners of the 2023 St James' Chamber Music Competition and have performed at venues across Europe, including the Barbican, St James' Piccadilly, Holker Hall, and Cité Musicalé Metz. In 2023, they were selected to be part of Chamber Studio’s Hans Keller Chamber Forum, receiving mentorship from John Myerscough, Alasdair Beatson and Richard Ireland in three residencies across the 2023/24 season. In summer 2024, they were a resident string quartet at the Lake District Music Summer Festival where they gave numerous recitals as well as performing alongside Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch and the Alkyona Quartet. Whilst there, they also received coaching and masterclasses from the Brodsky and Heath Quartets.
Quartet Concrète are also keen educators themselves, and have worked at both GYA King’s Cross and on the GSMD Summer Courses.Quartet Concrète champion the works of contemporary and young composers. As recent participants of Quatour Diotima’s “L’Académie Diotima”, they performed a new work by Arnau Gran i Romero, “À vif”, and Donnacha Dennehy’s, “The Weather of It”, at the Cité Musicale Metz. Their success on this academy has led to a future performance at the Opéra national du Rhin in April 2026. Other influential masterclasses and mentorships have included sessions with András Keller, David Waterman, Candida Thompson, Robert Levin and Johannes Meissl to name a few.
Quartet Concrète also collaborate across genres, including recording string arrangements, as well an ongoing partnership with Ballet Nights where they showcase the string quartet repertoire alongside classical and contemporary ballet. They have also worked with the NEST, and most recently collaborated on: Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven, a play by Tama Matheson at Opera Holland Park 2025, working alongside Jayson Gillham as music director. The music received much critical acclaim: “Quartet Concrète delivered exquisite interpretations of Beethoven's chamber works” - London Theatre Reviews.
Amongst other music collaborations, concerts and recitals are at the core of what Quartet Concrète do. They have performed internationally, as well as across London and the UK, bringing their programmes to a wide range of audiences. Quartet Concrète also love to perform works not traditionally written for string quartet, arranged by their violist, Dominic Stokes. Recent arrangements include: Bach’s “Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh” and Paul Mealor’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, which they performed at various concerts around the UK in Summer 2025.