Ruisi Quartet

Britain's Ruisi Quartet has dual specialties in early quartet repertory and contemporary music. The group released its debut album, Big House, in 2023. The Ruisi Quartet was formed in 2013 by violinist Alessandro and cellist Max Ruisi. The second violinist is Oliver Cave, and the violist is Luba Tunnicliffe. The group has continued to be based on London. The Ruisi Quartet received an artist diploma at the Royal College of Music in the school's chamber music course and took further studies from Krzysztof Chorzelski of the Belcea Quartet as part of that group's program for nurturing young quartets. The new quartet won the Kirckman Concert Society Artists award and the Royal Philharmonic Society award for Young String Players, going on to win the Career Development Award from the Banff International String Quartet Competition, a prestigious early-career honor, in 2019. The Ruisi Quartet has participated in several IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses with pianists Ferenc Rados and Rita Wagner and composer Thomas Adès. The Ruisi Quartet has performed at leading concert halls around Britain and continental Europe. As its repertory developed, the group came to focus on dual specialties, performing music from the roots and early years of the string quartet genre (dating back to the four-part viol consort music of the 17th century) in a style influenced by the historical performance movement and also commissioning new music from contemporary composers. The quartet participated in the world premiere of Adès' Növények: Seven Hungarian Poems for mezzo-soprano and piano sextet at London's Wigmore Hall in November of 2022. The following year, the Ruisi Quartet made its recording debut on the PentaTone Classics label, releasing the album Big House. The album featured two early Haydn string quartets, viol consort music by Matthew Locke, and two world premieres of works by Oliver Leith that the quartet commissioned. The Ruisi Quartet also appeared later that year on the French song recital Visions illuminées by soprano Mary Bevan.
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