Haydn’s string quartet, which BBC Music Magazine characterised as one of ‘the greatest, most formally innovative, inventive and deeply felt string quartets ever composed is perhaps the most magical in all Haydn’s work. In 1876 Smetana was struggling to come to terms with his deafness and in the autumn of that year he started composing the intimate and nationalistic work which he subtitled From My Life. He wrote that the piece ‘depicts my youthful leanings towards art, a Romantic atmosphere, the inexpressible yearning for something I could neither express nor define, and also a kind of warning of my future misfortune’. Featured in the renowned TV series, Band of Brothers, Beethoven’s String Quartet No 14 is, according to Strings magazine, ‘an unprecedentedly original and ambitious work: arguably the zenith of Beethoven’s late quartets, which in themselves hold a privileged position at the core of the repertoire − for many, its holy grail’.

The only ensemble to win both First and Audience Prizes at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy (2024), the Fibonacci Quartet is one of Europe's leading young string quartets. Following public finals at Wigmore Hall, they were selected to join the Young Classical Artist Trust roster.