Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

Concert at the Red Hedgehog, Highgate

Last Sunday the 8th of May, we played for the first time at the intimate North London chamber music venue - The Red Hedgehog. The Red Hedgehog is named after the 19th century coffee house ‘Zum Roten Igel’ - a favourite social venue for composers such as Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn. The recital we gave [...]

Christmas Concert - I Saw Three Ships, St Giles, Cheddington

Last night (Friday the 10th December) we gave our first Christmas concert of 2010 in our village church,  St Giles - Cheddington. As ever, there was a good audience of around 80 people, many of whom had seen us perform before and the atmosphere was very festive with plenty of mulled wine, mince pies, candles [...]

Music on Mondays - St Michael at the North Gate

On Monday we were very happy to return once more to the lovely church of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford to perform a short recital as part of the ‘Music on Mondays’ series which takes place every Monday lunchtime. Musicians perform without charge but are able to nominate a good cause or [...]