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HAYDN String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33 No. 2
DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 19
BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

By winning the first prize and sweeping four of the special prizes (among them the Mozart and Beethoven prizes) at the 2018 London Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition the Esmé Quartet made a sensational entrance into the string quartet world. Subsequently, they were invited and started touring internationally playing concerts at festivals and concert halls such as the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the Wigmore Hall and throughout the UK, at the Flagey Musiq3 Festival in Brussels, Auditori di Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival, the Haydn String Quartet Festival in Schloss Esterházy in Fertöd, Hungary and Classic Esterházy in Eisenstadt, Austria. In the summer of the same year, they were named as the quartet in residency at the Aix-en-Provence festival and also appeared at the McGill International String Quartet Academy in Montreal.

Besides winning the Gold Medal at the Cliburn Competition (the first South Korean to do so) pianist Yekwon Sunwoo has won first prizes at such prestigious competitions as the William Kapell, the Vendome Prize (at Verbier) and Interlaken. He now is sought after as a soloist by orchestras worldwide, and is an active chamber musician

approx. 2 hours, with one intermission

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