Heath Quartet

Winning top honors and support in its early years, the Heath Quartet excels in performances and recordings of 20th century and contemporary music. The group members teach at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. The Heath Quartet was formed at Britain's Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in 2002. The members were Oliver Heath and Sara Wolstenholme (violin), Gary Pomeroy (viola), and Christopher Murray (cello), and that membership remained stable until 2021 when Heath departed and was replaced by Marije Johnston, who became second violinist. The Heath Quartet's recording career has steadily developed, with complete cycles of Bartók's and Tchaikovsky's string quartets, earning positive notice. Strongly committed to contemporary music, the Heath Quartet has performed music by Hans Abrahamsen, Louis Andriessen, and Sofia Gubaidulina. In 2021, the Heath Quartet issued a recording of string quartets by Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg.