Echéa Quartet

They have recently been awarded the role as Fellowship String Quartet for 2019/20 at the Royal Academy of Music. The quartet are 2019 Concordia Foundation Artists and City Music Foundation Artists 2019/20.

Echéa Quartet are: Aliyata Foon-Dancoes, violin
Emily Earl, violin
Clara Loeb, viola
Eliza Millett, violoncello

In 2018, the Echéa Quartet were the string-quartet-in-residence at Ferrandou Musique (France) and at the Wintergreen Performing Arts Festival (USA), where they collaborated with the baritone David Wilson-Johnson and violinist Rachel Barton Pine respectively. This year they performed Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Selini Quartet at the Musikverein (Vienna) and collaborated with Marin Alsop at the World Economic Forum (Switzerland). The quartet were featured on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’, and more recently on CBC National Radio (Canada) as part of their six-week tour of the west coast of North America. The quartet also attended the ‘Evolution of the String Quartet’ residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada) where they worked with the JACK and Parker Quartets. The quartet will be returning to Canada in March 2021 for further concerts.

The Echéa Quartet’s continued dedication to new music is central to their work. In this regard, they have commissioned works by and collaborated with multiple UK-based composers, including Louise Drewett, Freya Waley-Cohen and Robert Laidlow. More widely, the quartet have worked closely with Harrison Birtwistle, Andrew Norman and Henning Kraggerud (West Cork Chamber Music Festival, 2019). In January 2020, the quartet appeared at the Festival de los Siete Lagos (Patagonia, Argentina).