Blackheath Chamber Music Festival 2024

An audience firm favourite….

The ORAVA QUARTET return this year as our Quartet in Residence. They will delight you with the vigour and subtle passion of their playing, in a program woven through with folk music from around the world—from Denmark and Sweden to the Czech Republic and Greece. Schulhoff’s Five Pieces (featured on the new Orava Deutsche Grammophon album) are a neoclassical glance to the past, spiked with irony, rhythmic drive, and a sense of parody… whilst Elena Kats-Chernin’s For Theodora—a ‘first’ by the Quartet in NSW and the Mountains—lovingly evokes the threads of a family’s Greek heritage through four generations of women. Not to be missed.