Acacia Quartet
Founded in 2010, Acacia Quartet is an Australian string quartet known for versatile, inventive programmes and a strong commitment to new music. Its recordings have drawn national notice, including an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award nomination.
Acacia has recorded twelve albums, with Blue Silence earning a nomination for an APRA-AMCOS Art Music Award for Excellence. The quartet is passionate about supporting Australian composers, working with young musicians, and sharing its love of music with audiences of all ages.
Performances feature regularly on radio stations around the world. Australian engagements include the Sydney Opera House, City Recital Hall Sydney and Melbourne Recital Hall, with extensive touring through regional NSW and Victoria. The international debut came in Vancouver, at the Roundhouse, in June 2016. The following year the Christine Raphael Foundation invited Acacia Quartet to make its European debut, with concerts in Berlin and a recording of three string quartets by Günter Raphael.
Acacia Quartet is proud to be Ensemble in Residence at the Orange Regional Conservatorium.
Artist's website: www.acaciaquartet.com
Acacia Quartet is featured on the following titles
Acacia Quartet: Mozart Dvorak Chance
Three four-movement string quartets — Mozart’s D minor K. 421, Alice Chance’s Sundried, and Dvořák’s American — played with the clarity and ensemble blend Acacia Quartet is known for.
Muse
Australian recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley joins the Acacia Quartet for the premiere recording of six Australian works for lower-voiced recorders and string quartet, drawing on poetry, mythology, historic song and storybook characters.
Members of Acacia Quartet
Stefan Duwe
Born in Oldenburg, Germany, Stefan studied viola with Marcel Charpentier, Konrad Grahe and Emile Cantor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and attended masterclasses with Thomas Brandis and Serge Collot.
Lisa Stewart
Born in Sydney, Lisa began the violin with Suzuki teachers Hiroko Primrose, Yasuki Nakamura and violist William Primrose. At 11 she was playing solos in Japan, the USA and New Zealand. With tutelage from Christopher Kimber, Lisa won multiple national competitions.
Anna Martin-Scrase
Born in Vermont, USA, Anna moved to Salzburg, Austria at the age of 16, where she lived for the next 10 years. She completed a Bachelor of Music Performance at Mozarteum University Salzburg, studying cello under Professor Heidi Litschauer and chamber music with the Hagen Quartet.
Myee Clohessy
Myee Clohessy grew up in the Southern Highlands of NSW and was lucky to begin violin lessons with Ernest Llewellyn when she was ten. By the age of eighteen Myee had won several competitions including the QYO National Youth Concerto Competition.