THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

The Josefine Viola Quartet will play a concert of music by Grazyna Bacewicz

(1909-1959), centred around her quartets for violins and cellos, both arranged for violas. Bacewicz was a polish composer and violinist, and was one of the first female polish composers to gain international recognition.

She led the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1936-38, which gave her the opportunity to hear and play some of her own music. As such many of her works feature the violin, and she wrote many pieces for the solo instrument, some of which we have transcribed for viola.