Inaugural Welcome Concert
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Sophie Rowell - violin 1
Anne Horton - violin 2
Sally Boud -viola
Patrick Murphy - cello
The Tank Stream Quartet, resident at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney, is one of Australia's foremost ensembles, having risen to prominence on the concert stage in a remarkably short time. The quartet takes its name from the first fresh-water supply of the Sydney Cove settlement. It is noteworthy that three of the members are from Perth.
Formed as recently as January 2000, the quartet won the Grand Prize at the Second National Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne in July of the following year. They went on to crown this achievement in May 2002 by winning the string quartet division of the Fourth Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan.
In May 2003 the quartet was a semi-finalist in the London International String Quartet Competition, and it will be competing in the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in July 2003.
Their concert schedule has encompassed much of Australia including programs for Musica Viva's Menage and Country Wide Series, concerts in Perth and appearances at the Barossa International Festival of Music, the Blackwood River Chamber Music Festival and the
Mildura-Wentworth Arts Festival. As a prelude to the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, they toured through north-western Queensland, their performances including one underground at the BHP Billiton Cannington mine. They have performed extensively for music clubs in the Sydney region and at the Institute's Sunday Art Gallery Recital Series. Recently they gave a recital at Goldsmiths College at the University of London.
Scheduled for later in 2003 are performances for the Sydney Mozart Society and the Bangalow and Barossa Music Festivals, as well as a concert tour of Japan. They have been invited to perform Janacek's first string quartet in Prague next year.
All members are instrumental tutors and teachers of chamber music performance at the Australian Institute of Music. They were tutors at the 2001 Riverina Summer School for Strings.
The quartet's tutor is Alice Waten of the Australian Institute of Music. They have also studied with Milan Skampa (Smetana Quartet, Czech Republic) and Attila Falvay (Kodaly Quartet, Hungary).