I am delighted to announce the return to the Algarve of The Lacerda Quartet. The quartet has performed here on a number of occasions and I am delighted that they are returning with such a beautiful programme.

The Lacerda String Quartet was founded in 1990 and is one of the leading string quartets of Portugal. Besides standard repertoire, with a special emphasis on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, the Lacerda dedicates much of its attention to great and unjustly neglected Portuguese masterpieces. Their first CD includes Viana da Mota’s String Quartet in G major (1895, first world recording), Freitas Branco’s String Quartet (1911, first world recording by a Portuguese string quartet) and Francisco de Lacerda’s Miniatures for String Trio (1917, also a world première recording). A second CD entitled "Maelstrom", with music by the internationally acclaimed Portuguese composer João Pedro Oliveira, includes Labirinto (2001), for string quartet and tape. The quartet has premiered works by Moritz Eggert, Alan Ridout, Arnold Trowel, Frederico de Freitas, Eugénio Rodrigues, Eurico Carrapatoso and Alexandre Delgado, and has performed in many of the major festivals and venues in Portugal, as well as in Spain, France, Italy and England. The year 2008 saw the Lacerda “crossing borders”, participating in an innovative project with the ever-popular Portuguese light-music singer Jorge Palma in the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon. The Lacerda also took part in a historic and unique project during 2009 that involved performing all of Haydn´s string quartets by Haydn to celebrate the bi-centenary of his death. These concerts took place in Portugal, Madeira and the Azores and were broadcast by Portuguese national radio (Antena 2). The Lacerda released a CD with three of Haydn´s most emblematic quartets from the Op 1, Op 20 and Op 77 sets to commemorate this historic occasion. In August 2011 the quartet was invited to perform a series of concerts at various venues in China, performing works by Freitas Branco, Carrapatoso, Haydn, Mozart and Schulhoff. In the summer of 2012 the Lacerda performed in Guimarães (European Cultural Capital for 2012) and for the 2014 "Dias da Música" in the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, the quartet performed a programme of Haydn, Melo and Beethoven. By far the most ambitious project of the Lacerda Quartet in the long-term is to record all 69 of Joseph Haydn´s String quartets by 2032, the tricentenary of the birth of this great composer.

The members of the quartet are Alexander Stewart (first violin), Regina Aires (second violin), Paul Wakabayashi (viola) and Luis André Ferreira (cello).

On this occasion they will be playing Three Pieces for String Quartet by Igor Stravinski, String Quartet in G major op 77 no 1 by Joseph Haydn and Schubert´s String Quartet in A minor op 29 (Rosamunde).

Tickets are €25 per person. To book please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The Lacerda Quartet will be playing music by Stravinski, Mozart and Schubert