The Trust is pleased to be supporting the Drimnin String Quartet Academy, run by the St Columba’s Drimnin Trust, which offers younger string quartets of exceptional potential the chance to spend time rehearsing and receiving intensive coaching in the beautiful and remote west coast of Scotland.
The Academy’s artistic director is John Myerscough, cellist of the renowned Doric Quartet and an acclaimed educator, whom the Trust also knows well from his much-appreciated teaching at the Hans Keller Forum. He began coaching quartets at Drimnin in 2025 – among them the Elmore Quartet, whom the Trust is supporting as Hans Keller Fellows at the Guildhall. Such was the Elmores’ ecstatic response to their experience that the Trust is only too happy to support an expansion of the Drimnin Academy.
Today, four prize-winning quartets from around the world begin the first of two residencies at Drimnin: the Isla String Quartet from London, the Moser String Quartet from Switzerland, the Quartet Integra from Japan and the Katarina String Quartet from the USA. At the end of each of their stays they will also give performances for the local community in Lochaber and the Isle of Mull to share their creative journeys and the glories of the string quartet repertoire.