Michael Trainor, Emily Holland violin 
Miguel Sobrinho viola
Jessie Ann Richardson cello

Resident Quartet at Kings Place, London, the distinguished Piatti Quartet are widely renowned for their ‘profound music making’ (The Strad) and their ‘lyrical warmth’ (BBC Music Magazine). Since their prizewinning performances at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, they have performed all over the world and made international broadcasts from many countries. The Piatti Quartet is famed for their diverse programming and for passionate interpretations across the spectrum of quartet writing; and have commissioned and recorded some of the most major and impressive works added to the quartet canon in recent years.

Contemporary music has been ever present in their repertoire and leaving a legacy to the quartet genre through commissions is one of the quartet’s central tenets. Major commissions and dedications have stemmed from composers Mark-Anthony Turnage, Emily Howard, Charlotte Harding, and Joseph Phibbs with performances in prestigious halls including The Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Flagey Radio Hall Brussels, Wigmore Hall London, and Aldeburgh Festival.

The quartet’s name is dedicated to Alfredo Piatti, a nineteenth Century virtuoso cellist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music.