Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition's Competitors
Eleven string quartets will compete for a £10,000 prize and a significant professional development package
Eleven early-career string quartets have been selected to participate in the sixteenth edition of the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, which will take place from April 1 to 6, 2025.
Founded in 1979 and hosted triennially, the competition has launched the careers of a number of ensembles — with its former first prize winners including the Van Kuijk, Arcadia, Danish, Formosa, Atrium, Hagen, and Takács String Quartets.
The selected ensembles for the 2025 edition are as follows:
- Erinys Quartet
- Katarina String Quartet
- Myriade String Quartet
- Opus13
- Quartet Integra
- Quartett HANA
- Quatuor Elmire
- Terra String Quartet
- Turicum Quartet
- Velvet Quartet
- Viatores Quartet
First Prize (the Alan Bradley Memorial Prize) is worth £10,000, while Second Prize £6,000 and Third Prize £3,000. A range of special prizes are also available, including for the best performance of a nineteenth-century work, of Judith Weir's piece The Spaniard, and of quartets by Mozart and Haydn.
The winning quartet will also receive a range of benefits, including a recital at Wigmore Hall, an 8-concert tour, multiple residencies, a place at the McGill International String Quartet Academy, and a concert at the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam.
In 2025, the jury will comprise John Gilhooly (Chair), Peter Jarůšek, Nina Lee, Heime Müller, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Lesley Robertson, and Mark Steinberg.
You can find out more about each individual quartet here.
PC: Junhyung Kim
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