On 15th January 2027 we welcome the Resol String Quartet, currently emerging as one of the UK’s most exciting chamber ensembles. Formed in 2018 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the quartet entered a new chapter in 2024 with the arrival of violinist Eliette Harris and cellist Chloe Randall, who join violinist Annabel Kidd and violist Raphael Chinn.
Recognised for their vibrant musical identity and compelling sound, they won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the CAVATINA Chamber Music Competition at Wigmore Hall (2021) and have featured on BBC Radio Scotland’s Classics Unwrapped and appeared at the BBC Scotland Scotland’s People Awards. The quartet made their Conway Hall debut in the historic Sunday Concert Series and were selected as Britten Pears Young Artists in Aldeburgh. In June 2025, they made their debut at the St Magnus International Festival, presenting three concerts and collaborating with pianists Mihai Ritivoiu and Nikita Lukinov.
Violinist Eliette Harris hails from Brighton and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a scholarship holder. She plays on the beautiful 1740 Calcanius violin kindly awarded to her by the Harrison Frank Family Foundation. Eliette is regularly invited to perform as a soloist, collaborating with a number of ensembles across the country, and holds the 2023 Coro Nuovo Musician of the Year competition award.
Annabel Kidd is a Sussex born violinist based in Glasgow and a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), achieving a First-Class Degree in September 2020, receiving the Mary D Adams Prize for Chamber Music and adding an MA in Chamber Music at the RCS in October 2021. Annabel has performed with Manchester Camerata on a freelance basis and participated in schemes and side-by-side events with the Scottish Ensemble, RSNO and Scottish Opera. She has performed alongside many well-known pop artists such as Twin Atlantic and Brit Award winning artist Tom Walker. Annabel is honoured to play on a Francesco Maurizi violin from 1860, Appignano, which is very kindly on loan to her from the Harrison-Frank Family Foundation.
Raphael Chinn is a California-born violist based in Glasgow. A keen chamber musician, he has performed in various capacities on both coasts of the United States, from the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina to appearances in his native San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014 he received a scholarship to begin studies in Viola Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), from which he has received both his Bachelor of Music with Honours and his Master of Arts in Chamber Music. Raphael has toured throughout the United Kingdom and the Continent. As a freelancer he is well-established in Britain, appearing with such orchestras as the Glasgow Barons and Manchester Camerata.
Chloe Randall was born in Fife and studied at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland prior to the Royal Northern College of Music. During her time at RNCM she was awarded the Amy Lindley Cello Prize and Shirley Cattarall Award for Cello. In 2021-24 she studied at the University of Music and the Arts in Vienna, where she had a busy chamber music schedule with the Subito Piano Quartet, with whom she won the chamber music scholarship of the HFP Steuerberater and first prize at the ‘Danubia Talents’ Chamber Music Competition in Budapest. As an orchestral musician she has played with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and Manchester Camerata, and was regularly principal cello of her university orchestras, as well as of various freelance orchestras in Austria and Germany including the Vienna Mozart Orchestra and Bayerische Philharmonie.
Alongside their concert work, the Resol Quartet maintains a strong commitment to education and community engagement, and will be running a workshop at WKPS on the afternoon of 15th January.
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