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After successfully performing at London’s Wigmore Hall in January, Mettis String Quartet returns to the UK and gives a concert at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester. The quartet will participate at the RNCM’s Chamber Music Festival alongside some of the world’s most promising young musicians. The concert takes place on Friday, 4 March, 2016, 2.15pm at the concert hall of the College. The programme also includes performances by Akilone Quartet and Darian Trio.

The Mettis String Quartet is comprised out of four highly accomplished musicians: Kostas Tumosa (violin), Bernardas Petrauskas (violin), Rokas Vaitkevičius (cello) and Karolis Rudokas (viola). After forming the ensemble at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Mettis has performed in a broad variety of events, both local and international. These include representing LMTA in various chamber music festivals, including Harmos’13 (Portugal), the European Festival of Music Academies, and the 49th Chamber Music Festival in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Apart from intensively performing and touring, Mettis frequently attends open masterclasses. The quartet participated in the International Summer Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2014, receiving two awards: the chamber music and Gottfried von Einem foundation prize for an outstanding interpretation of a composer's string quartet. Since September 2014, Mettis has been a member of the ECMA, and has been selected to perform at the academy’s 2015 showcase in London.

The RNCM Chamber Music Festival plays an enormous role in the story of the College and is a major event in its calendar. This year, the festival explores the music of the German romantics and its echoes in the 20th century. As a reflection of the festival’s main theme, the programme of Friday’s concert is dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann and Max Reger.

http://www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/mendelssohn-and-schumann-1/

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