It is time to blow our horn a little :-) (2010-07-05)

It was really a very fruitful Spring in our quartet life! We were touring like mad, visiting all the biggest cities in Poland and also many countries abroad: UK, Germany (successful debut in the famous Konzerthaus), Lithuania, USA and China. In between the busy travelling we were awarded the Fryderyk Prize for the best chamber recording of the year in Poland (for the disc with Szymanowski and Rozycki on the Hyperion label), and the CD of our cross-over project with the Polish pop singer Kayah within just a few days had reached the Gold Record status. We are so happy!

Holidays will start in about a month but we still have a lot of work. In July we'll perform in London's Wigmore Hall, at the biggest German Festival Schleswig Holstein and also for the first time in Poland we'll lead our own course for young quartets. We are very excited about it! We'll also play twice in Warsaw, our home town (have a look at the 'Concerts' section for details).

In August - the only thing we'll do is have a decent rest!

Kayah & Royal Quartet (2010-02-26)

8 March is the date of the official premiere of our newest album, recorded together with Kayah for Kayax/Agora (it will be exclusively available from 5 March via Empik's network). This is a project we have written about before: it was played for the first time during our Kwartesencja Festival 2008 and both we, Kayah and the public loved it so much that we decided to make a CD out of it. The concert promoting the CD will also take place on 8 March - on that day we'll perform in the Polish Radio W. Lutoslawski Concert Studio. It will be broadcast live on Polish Radio Programme 2, and later on Programme 3. Soon after that we'll head off for an intensive tour around Poland - for details please go to the "Concerts" section. We hope to see you in one of the cities!

3 quartets + 2 nominations (2010-02-23)

We have just returned from Potton Hall, a large country house near Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast of England, where in a studio far away from civilisation we recorded all three quartets of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki for Hyperion. It will be our second album released on this prestigious label. We hadn't even had a chance to have a rest after the recording when we got the fantastic news that our previous Hyperion CD of Szymanowski and Rózycki quartets was nominated in two categories for Fryderyk 2010, the Polish music industry award: as the best chamber music album and the best Polish music album. We are so happy that our work has been rewarded by the members of the Academy!

November-December (2009-12-21)

It has been a very long time since we have written any news on our blog. We feel very ashamed. But it does not mean we had nothing to write about, quite the opposite! Since the beginning of November we have been on stage 25 times - it's quite a record for our quartet career so far!

We started with the 6th edition of our Kwartesencja Festival which went so well, with wonderful guest-artists: Skampa and New Generation Quartets, and with a fantastic audience. Just the day after the festival we played in the beautiful hall of Caixa Forum in Madrid. This was our first ever concert with the famous Polish pianist Janusz Olejniczak and we hope it was not the last one as we have already made some plans for the future. We will also remember for a long time our concert in Rybna Castle (PL) - it is also a place which we'll visit often (more information soon). In November we played a promotional concert for our latest CD with Grazyna Bacewicz's music - we performed with the Krzysztof Herdzin Jazz Quartet in Warsaw University Hall and in December we gave a concert of premieres by Polish composers as part the Composers' Portraits Festival.

Apart from that we we were part of a huge concert tour promoting Kayah's latest album "Skala" in all the Polish major cities. We had the opportunity to perform some of the compositions from the Kwartesencja Project which we recorded last year - the CD will be released soon - at the beginning March.

And now we finally have our Xmas break! We wish all our fans and well-wishers a lovely holiday with families and friends and may all your dreams come true in the New Year!

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