Artists

The quartet consists of four undergraduate students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. A truly cosmopolitan ensemble, the quartet represents four different nationalities which thrive in working together to make music.

Gergely Horvath (violin) is playing on a violin by Clement, Paris 1816, sponsored by the Sir John Barbirolli Foundation.

Rachel Spencer (2nd violin) started playing at the age of six, and also enjoys singing and has recently been appointed Soprano 1 Section Leader for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.

Gabriella Gemesi (violin) graduated as a violinist in 2008 at the Music Academy of Szeged (Hungary) and in the same year she started to play the viola under Gyorgy Konrad.

Marianne Diessner (cello) grew up in Leipzig, Germany, and started playing the cello when she was ten. In June 2009, she won the Ian D. Watt competition for string players at the RSAMD.