“One of the most promising young string quartets of Europe” is the Dudok Kwartet’s rep at international competitions. Deservedly so, for graduating in 2013 with the best recognition award.
The members met at the Ricciotti Ensemble and won the Kersjesprijs a year after; an annual award presented to extraordinary talented people in the Dutch chamber music.
Highlights of the previous season were performances in Het Concertgebouw and the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the premiere of a new opera by Kaaija Saariaho in cooperation with De Nationale Opera and countertenor Philip Jaroussky in a leading role.
Support act is a solo by James Oesi (double bass), works from classical to modern by Johann Sebastian Bach, Luciano Berio and others.
After winning the Huygens Scholarship, this South African born musician came in 2012 to the Netherlands for a master study at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. He graduated with a sound 10 (A) and was presented with a Fock Medaille for best graduation of that year.
Oesi started at the age of 16 at the Tsjaikovski State Conservatory in Moskou with Lev Rakov. He performs on a regular basis with the Combattimento Consort, Asko|Schönberg, Nieuw Ensemble, Insomnio and the Ives Ensemble, and he performed in Shanghai, New York, Amsterdam, London, and Witten, Germany. He is since December 2013 the assistent of Quirijn van Regteren Altena, his former tutor, at the Koninklijk Conservatorium.