Engegard String Quartet

Clitheroe Concerts Society

The Engegard are Norway's top string quartet, formed at Lofeten in 2006.

Arvid Engegard led his first string quartet in concerts throughout Norway when he was just eleven and also gave his first solo performancein Mozart's Piano Concerto, KV 488. At fourteen, He won a television competition leading to concert tours of America.

At sixteen he received his instrumental diploma from the Trodheim Conservatory at the same time playing as soloist with both the Trondheim Symphony orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic. While in America, he participated in masterclasses with Isaac Stern. Since 1999, Arvid has developed a career as conductor, working with the BBC Concert Orchestra and many more.

Alex Robson was born in England but moved to Norway when he was three years old. He learnt to play the violin at a very young age and studied the instument at NTNU Trondheim and at the Royal College of Music in London. He has worked as a freelance for various other Norwegian and Swedish orchestras and has performed with such familiar names as Barbara Hendricks and Tine Thing Helseth. He plays a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin from 1858.

Juliet Jopling studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Prussia Cove and Trinity College, Cambridge. As a Scholar at the Royal College of Music she was awarded the Peter Morrison Concerto Prize and Honours in her Performing Diploma in 1990. She led the Essex Schools orchestra before changing to viola, then playing with the National Youth Orchestra and the European Community Youth Orchestra. At the Royal College of Music she was Principle Viola of the String Ensemble. At Cambridge, she was Princilple Viola of the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra. With Arvid, she was a founding member of the Engegard Quartet. She plays a Giuseppe Guadagnini viola from 1770.

Jan Clemens Carlsen (cellist) was born in Austria and studied at the Universitat Mozarteum in Salzberg. He has made a number of highly-acclaimed CDs, working with such musicians as