BIOGRAPHY
The Regency Quartet was formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021 and comprises of scholars at London conservatoires. Winners of the 2025 Royal Over-Seas League Strings and Keyboard Ensembles Prize, the quartet is coached and mentored by Alex Redington from the Doric String Quartet. The quartet has been selected as 2025/26 Kirckman Concert Society Artists and are part of the Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists Scheme. They have participated in masterclasses with renowned musicians including Gerhard Schulz, Anthony Marwood, Lawrence Power, David Waterman and Isabel Charisius, and receive coachings from Jon Thorne, So-Ock Kim and Simon Rowland-Jones. The quartet was supported by the Royal Academy of Music’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training Scheme from 2021-2024.
The quartet has been awarded a number of prizes from the Royal Academy of Music including the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize and the Historical Women Composers Prize for their rendition of Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A minor. In 2023, the quartet was selected by the Royal Academy of Music to visit Hong Kong through the prestigious Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme and enjoyed masterclasses with musicians from the Lincoln Centre’s Chamber Music Society as well as Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom. They also participated in the 2025 International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, studying with Kim Kashkashian. In the same year, the quartet enjoyed performing a series of concerts in the South of France through the Ferrandou Musique residency.
The quartet took part in the Royal Academy of Music’s Chamber Music Festival in 2023, working with Elena Urioste and Tom Poster from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Collaborative performances include a String Sextet concert of Tchaikovsky and Brahms for the Oxshott and Cobham Music Society, harp chamber music by Arnold Bax in London venues and a performance of Mendelssohn’s Octet in Derby. They have also led a series of outreach workshops in Devon schools as part of the Two Moors Festival.
Mabelle Young-Eun Park
Olwen Miles
Jamie Howe
REGENCY STRING QUARTET 