Brodsky Quartet

One of Britain's most durable chamber groups, The Brodsky Quartet is also among the most innovative. It is one of the few chamber ensembles that has excelled both in traditional repertory and in cross-genre collaborations. The quartet was founded in 1972 when Michael Thomas (violin), Ian Belton (violin), Alex Robertson (viola), and Jacqueline Thomas (cello), students in the youth program at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (all were between ages 11 and 13 at the time), formed a string quartet and named it after violinist Adolph Brodsky (1851-1929). The quarte...