Maggini
String Quartet
Laurence
Jackson Violin
1
David
Angel
Violin 2
Martin
Outram
Viola
Michal
Kaznowski
Cello
Since
its inception in 1988, the Maggini Quartet has won international acclaim with
success in the USA and the Far East as well as throughout Europe. The quartet
broadcasts regularly for the BBC and has played in major festivals and concert
venues throughout the UK. The name is derived from the early seventeenth century
Brescian violinmaker Giovanni Paolo Maggini. David Angel plays an example of
this instrument. Lawrence Jackson plays a violin by J.B.Vuillaume of Paris
c.1850, Martin
Outram plays an eighteenth century Italian viola, and Michal Kaznowski plays a
cello by Cordanus, made in Genoa in 1776.
The quartet has commissioned a number of important new works from composers such as Robert Simpson and James MacMillan, and holds residencies at Brunel University, Canterbury Christ Church College and Shrewsbury School.