Royal Academy of Music Announces Nina Drucker Quartet Fellowship for 2025/26

The Fibonacci Quartet will receive a number of performance opportunities and will coach students at the Academy

London's Royal Academy of Music has announced that the 2025/26 recipient of the school's Nina Drucker Quartet Fellowship is the Fibonacci Quartet. The group comprises violinists Kryštof Kohout and Luna De Mol, violist Elliot Kempton, and cellist Findlay Spence.

Aimed at early-career string quartets, the Fellowship gives these ensembles time and space to rehearse and provides a number of internal and external performance opportunities with many of RAM's partner institutions.

The quartet will also contribute to the pedagogical life of the Academy by coaching its student ensembles, among other duties.

Of late, the Fibonacci Quartet has been achieving a great deal of success. They recently joined the roster of the Young Classical Artists Trust, and they are presently a Resident Ensemble at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, as well as the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam.

The group was the first ensemble to win both First and Audience prizes at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition, and they have amassed other accolades like the First Prize in the Royal Overseas League Chamber Music Competition and First Prize in the Cavatina Chamber Music Competition.

"We are absolutely thrilled to be Nina Drucker Fellows and to forge a meaningful relationship with such an historic institution," the quartet said. "We are confident that the fellowship will offer us both a rich environment for our own development and the exciting opportunity to give back to students through lessons, masterclasses and workshops. We can’t wait to get started!"