Horizons: Sound Worlds

Featured Artists

Australian String Quartet

Dale Barltrop
Violin

Francesca Hiew
Violin

Christopher Cartlidge
Viola

Michael Dahlenburg
Cello

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Garth Knox
Viola, Viola d’amore

Chloë Sobek
Violone

Australian String Quartet

Since 1985, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has created unforgettable string quartet performances for audiences around the world.

Dedicated to musical excellence of the highest standard, they aim to create chemistry and amplify intimacy through experiences that connect people with music.

From their home base at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of

Music, they reach out across the globe to engage people with an outstanding program of performances, workshops, commissions, digital content and education projects.

Their distinct sound is enhanced by a matched set of 18th-century Guadagnini instruments, handcrafted by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini between c.1743 and 1784 in Turin and Piacenza, Italy. These precious instruments are on loan for their exclusive use through the generosity of UKARIA.    

Dale Barltrop plays a 1784 Guadagnini Violin, Turin

Francesca Hiew plays a 1748-49 Guadagnini Violin, Piacenza

Chris Cartlidge plays a 1783 Guadagnini Viola, Turin

Michael Dahlenburg plays a c.1743 Guadagnini Violoncello, Piacenza, ‘Ngeringa’

Garth Knox | Viola, Viola d’amore

Garth Knox is at the forefront of the new music scene in many fields. Former member of the Arditti Quartet and of Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris he has become a unique performer of music of many different styles, ranging from minimalist understatement to the cutting edge of new techniques and new technologies. Thanks to his interest in the viola d’amore and the medieval fiddle, his repertoire has opened up to the music of the past (medieval, baroque) which he persuasively brings into the present, his Irish roots enabling him to dialogue freely with traditional musicians without complexes.

Chloë Sobek | Violone

Chloë Sobek is a composer-performer based in Naarm, Australia. Her work is currently concerned with investigating more-than-human scholarship within a sonic practice, leading to a diverse enquiry of sonic and musical forms, from acoustemology through to Noise Music. Chloë’s practice is built around the Renaissance double bass, the violone. Her creative process couples maximalist and musique concrète sensibilities such as audio-montage and electronic processing. She has been described as ‘an artist that is thinking deeply about how to aestheticise what’s on everyone’s mind; to use art to drive engagement with ideas whilst pushing the boundaries of technique and technicality ’ - Kieran Ruffles, 4zzz.