Maiastra September 2026 - String Quartets with Florence Cooke
Florence Cooke is an internationally recognised chamber musician who has performed extensively around the world. She studied at Cambridge University where she held an academic scholarship, and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she held the Leverhulme Fellowship. Her main violin teachers were Krzysztof Smietana and David Takeno. Florence is the first violinist of the Pasqualati Quartet, formed during lockdown, and a member of Ensemble Cymru. She has performed as a guest artist with many chamber groups such including the Navarra Quartet, Sacconi Quartet, Razumovsky Ensemble and Chroma Ensemble, and in many festivals including Wye Valley Festival and IMS Prussia Cove. She has played as principal with Arcangelo, Aurora Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia and European Camerata, and she led the Theseus Ensemble, Orchestra of St Pauls and the LPO ‘Future Firsts‘ concert. She is a guest teacher of violin and chamber music at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Junior Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Programme
To be announced
Musicians
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Course Director: Florence Cooke
Free tickets / retiring donations (to Maiastra)
About Maiastra
The Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust, under the name ‘Maiastra’, provides training for emerging young professionals who are hoping to make chamber music a major part of their career. The main objective of the Trust is to provide courses for advanced students, usually at undergraduate or postgraduate level, in the performance of chamber music. Each course culminates in three public concerts for appreciative and discerning audiences in Cobham and West London and occasionally elsewhere in the UK.