by Kleio Quartet

First Prize and Commission Prize winners at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition 2023, the Kleio Quartet are quickly establishing themselves as an internationally-recognised quartet.

Described by Alina Ibragimova as "a wonderfully dedicated group of musicians who bring assuredness and freshness to everything they play”, they formed at the Seiji Ozawa International Chamber Academy in 2019 and consist of individually acclaimed musicians Yume Fujise, Katherine Yoon, Jenny Lewisohn and Eliza Millett.

The Kleio Quartet have performed in major international venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Victoria Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the DR Koncerthuset, the Black Diamond in Copenhagen and many others.

The quartet are particularly grateful to have received support and mentorship from Eckart Runge (ex-Artemis Quartet) and Alina Ibragimova (Chiaroscuro Quartet) as well as from John Myerscough (Doric Quartet) thanks to ChamberStudio's Mentorship Scheme. They have also received coaching from world-renowned chamber musicians Sadao Harada, Nobuko Imai, Pamela Frank, Jonathan Brown, Simon Rowland-Jones, György Kurtàg and Oliver Wille.

This season the Kleio Quartet are delighted to be joining the class of Kirill Gerstein at the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and look forward to a series of residencies hosted by the Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam from 2023-2025 as well as at ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre for the season 2023/24. They have been selected for the Tunnell Trust’s Music Club Awards Scheme 2022/23, are Kirckman Concert Society Young Artists for 2023/24 and have also been selected to join the MERITA platform from 2023-2025. They also won the Hattori Foundation Senior Award for 2023-24.

The Kleio Quartet are City Music Foundation Artists and are grateful for the ongoing support of Le Dimore del Quartetto.

Kleio Quartet head north!

After a day of serene travel from London up to Lanark (serene in all but a rather alarming moment when Jenny accidentally locked the rental car keys in the boot.. rectified by a panicked but ultimately successful dive into the boot via the back seat) we find ourselves an hour before the first concert of our greatly anticipated Tunnell Tour. Tonight’s venue is a beautiful little church, Christ Church on Hope Street, and we will play Haydn’s scintillating ‘Rider’ quartet, Mendelssohn’s brooding E minor quartet Op.44 No.2 and Mozart’s sparkling G major ‘Spring’ quartet. This last work is a piece we especially love – a new addition to our repertoire – but one that speaks to us all for it’s cheekiness, charm and the absolute stunner of a slow movement. We look forward to keeping you abreast of our movements as our tour goes on! After this concert we will be driving over to Kelso to stay with Jenny’s godmother – our wonderful host providing us with a gorgeous base for the duration of our tour. We can’t wait!