First prizewinners in the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the Solstice String Quartet is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the finest young quartets in the country. Selected by both the Tillett Trust and Park Lane Group in 2008, the quartet made their debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in 2009. Established whilst studying at Cambridge University in 2003, they held a Junior Fellowship at the International Institute of Chamber Music, Madrid, in 2008-9, where they studied every month with Prof Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet. They have been awarded the Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music from September 2009.

Alongside a passion for the classical quartet cannon, interest in new music is a motivating factor for the quartet. The quartet recently gave the premiere of a major new work by Joseph Phibbs for quartet and soprano.