String Quartet
The Marin Quartet plays the central quartet repertoire alongside the music of its own time, and has built a reputation for programmes that put the two in the same room rather than in separate halves.
Read the full biographyNext on stage
Ashcroft Hall International Series
Haydn — String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 'Rider'
Janáček — String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'
Beethoven — String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127
Gullane Music Society
Purcell — Fantazias a 4 (selection)
Britten — String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36
Schubert — String Quartet in A minor, D. 804 'Rosamunde'
Pre-concert talk at 18:15, free to ticket holders.
Sønderborg Kammermusikfestival
Nielsen — String Quartet in F, Op. 44
Beethoven — String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 'Serioso'
In the press
“They play Op. 18 as if the ink were still wet — quick, argumentative, entirely unbothered by two centuries of received wisdom about how early Beethoven ought to sound.” ★★★★★
— The Chamber Music Review, Frances Odell (on Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1–3)
“The Kreutzer had the shape of a story badly interrupted, which is exactly right, and Sightlines emerged from it as if it had been waiting there all along.”
— Northern Arts Journal, Peter Vann (Ashcroft Hall, world premiere of Sightlines)
“Four players who have plainly spent years listening to each other and have not yet run out of things to disagree about.”
— Concertgoer, Marianne Hale
On record
Fenmere Records, September 2025
Elin Marsh, violin
Tomas Reinholt, violin
Nadia Ferrers, viola
Joseph Okonkwo, cello
The first volume of a three-year traversal, recorded in the church at Fenmere over four days in a cold February.
Recording of the Month — The Chamber Music Review Editor's Choice — Concertgoer
Fenmere Records, April 2023
Elin Marsh, violin
Tomas Reinholt, violin
Nadia Ferrers, viola
Joseph Okonkwo, cello
Both Janáček quartets either side of Ann Tessier's Sightlines — the pairing the quartet has taken round Europe since.
Shortlisted, Northern Arts Journal Recording Prize