Released third of three CDs of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets on the Naxos label.
Residency at International Chamber Music Festival, Canberra.
New Zealand six city tour of two programmes of music by Schumann and Shostakovich.
Ten city New Zealand tour of “Schubertiade” with pianist Michael Houstoun.
Six city tour of two programmes of music by Schumann and Shostakovich.
Nine city North American tour including concerts with guest artist James Campbell, clarinet.
Released second of three CDs of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets on the Naxos label.
US tour including debut in Library of Congress series.
North American tour of summer festivals and series including Parry Sound and Ottawa Festivals.
New Zealand ten centre tour of multidisciplinary performance of Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross.
New Zealand six city tour of two programmes to celebrate Haydn bi-centenary.
Released first of three CDs of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets on the Naxos label.
July tour of Canadian summer festivals and series. Nine concert tour of Europe including Scotland, Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Czech Republic.
New Zealand six city tour of French composers with pianist Michael Houstoun.
Tours to United States and Canada. Debut appearance at Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Queensland.
Released CD of String Quartets by Alban Berg and Hugo Wolf on Naxos label.
New Zealand six city tour of two-concert series of music by Bach and Mendelssohn, including a new arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string quartet.
Tours to Korea, North America and Mexico, including two concerts at Festival International Cervantino, Guanajuato.
National tour of Mozart’s six “Haydn” string quartets to mark 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, and release of souvenir “live” CD of tour.
Return to The Wigmore Hall, London, as part of European tour to England, Scotland, Germany and The Netherlands.
10 year anniversary of musicians in current formation.
New York debut at The Frick Collection.
Released CD of Szekely and Dvorak Opus 51 String Quartets on Atoll Label.
Released CD of Beethoven Rasumovsky Quartets Opus 59 no 2 & 3 on Atoll Label.
Performance of complete cycle of Beethoven’s String Quartets in 7 centres throughout New Zealand to public and critical acclaim (Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston North, Hawkes Bay, Dunedin, Christchurch, Hamilton).
London debut at The Wigmore Hall.
Released Owhiro String Quartets of Gareth Farr on Trust Label.
Released CD of Debussy & Ravel String Quartets on Atoll Label.
Premiered Zoltan Szekely’s recently discovered 1937 String Quartet at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada.
Released Bartok’s complete cycle of six String Quartets on Manu/BMG label.
Performance of complete cycle of Bartok’s six String Quartets in 6 centres throughout New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Palmerton North, Hamilton); including all 6 quartets performed in one day in Hamilton.
Helene Pohl joins as first violinist.
Rolf Gjelsten joins as cellist.
Appointed Quartet-in-Residence at Victoria University of Wellington.
Douglas Beilman joins as second violinist.
Gillian Ansell (founding member) changes from second violin to viola.
New Zealand String Quartet established.
