QUARTET BIOGRAPHY

As Musica Viva Australia's 2020 - 2022 FutureMakers, the award-winning Partridge String Quartet are fast becoming a force within the Australian classical music scene.

Formed at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2017, the Partridge String Quartet has become one of the leading Australian string quartets of its generation. The quartet won first prize at the inaugural Queensland International Chamber Music Competition (2019) and the ANAM Chamber Music Competition (2018), and received the Musica Viva Chamber Music Prize (2017).

During their studies, the quartet was selected as one of ten string quartets from around the world for a three-week program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. In 2022 they attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia for a string quartet course with the Dover Quartet. As Musica Viva Australia FutureMakers (2020 to 2022), they worked with leading artists across disciplines and produced two music videos featuring selections from George Crumb's Black Angels.

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Passionate advocates of Australian music, the quartet has given premieres of works by Richard Mills, Brian Howard, Briony Marks and David Hush, and Holly Harrison's Fluro Electric has become a highlight of their recent programs. In 2024 they shared the Sydney Dance Company production Twofold with the Australian String Quartet, and in 2025 and 2026 they toured regional Australia as featured artists in Musica Viva Australia's regional touring program.

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The quartet members are committed educators, with residencies at the Orange and Coffs Harbour Regional Conservatoriums and at Monash University, and education work with Crashendo in Melbourne's west. They have performed at the Melbourne Recital Centre, MPavilion, the State Library Victoria, the Melbourne Athenaeum Library series, the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival and the Canberra International Music Festival, with features on ABC Classic, the Violin Channel, Limelight, CutCommon and The Strad.