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15-938: Marjorie Hayward led them for the 15 years of their life. Raymond Jeremy and Cedric Sharpe previously performed in the Philharmonic Quartet . 1926/10: The first Bradford Festival of Chamber Music. Brahms sextet op36; Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht 1926/12/11: St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Debussy quartet G minor; Mozart quartet in E flat (K.v. 428) 1927/6: Wigmore Hall, London. John B. McEwen: Three quartets 1927/10: Second Bradford Festival 1927/9/28, 1927/10/12&26: Aeolian Hall, London 1927: Wigmore Hall, London. Bax: Quartet 2, Oboe quintet, Piano quintet 1928/3/13, Town Hall, Chelsea: Chelsea Music Club 36th concert 1928/6/15: Aeolian Hall, London. John B. McEwen: Quartet in C Minor, first performance; Arnold Bax; York Bowen. 1928/10/23: Town Hall, Oxford: Ravel 1928/11/22: Town Hall, Oxford 1930/3/26 Wigmore Hall: Bax 1930 As part of

30-611: A professor at the Academy. Marjorie Hayward died in London on 10 January 1953, aged 67. There are many recordings of Marjorie Hayward's playing: She can be heard in the following YouTube links: Margaret Dare Margaret Marie Dare (4 February 1902 – 11 February 1976), usually known as Marie Dare , was a Scottish composer and cellist, born in Newport-on-Tay . She composed mostly chamber music, including several string quartets and

45-704: A professor of Cello at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music . In later life she also played and composed for the double bass. She lived at 32A Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh, where she died in February 1976. Dare composed mostly small scale chamber music, including a distinctive set of works for cello. There are six separate pieces for cello quartet, one of which (the Elégie ) was published by Chester in 1956. Her Phantasy Quartet (1933) and Phantasy Quintet (with two cellos, 1933-4), both one movement works, along with

60-679: A quintet. Some of her cello music written for educational purposes is still in use today. Dare studied cello at the Guildhall School of Music under Charles Warwick Evans and W H Squire . She continued her cello studies in Paris with Paul Bazelaire and also took composition lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Benjamin Dale . During her education she won the Gold Medal for Instrumentalists and

75-735: A show [in Ravel]" Marjorie Hayward Marjorie Olive Hayward (14 August 1885 – 10 January 1953) was an English violinist and violin teacher, prominent during the first few decades of the 20th century. Marjorie Hayward was born in Greenwich in 1885. An "infant prodigy", her violin studies were with Émile Sauret at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1897–1903), and Otakar Ševčík in Prague (1903–06). Her two years in Prague were paid for by

90-597: The Kamaran Trio . The latter was formed in 1937, with the cellist Antonia Butler and the pianist Kathleen Markwell . Marjorie Hayward was a frequent face at The Proms , playing there 26 times between 1909 and 1944. At a Proms concert on 28 September 1920 she premiered the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 33 by York Bowen . Other works she played at the Proms included: and the concertos by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. She

105-675: The Marie Dare String Quartet in the late 1930s, and created her own ensemble, the Marjorie Hayward String Quartet, with Irene Richards (2nd violin), Anatol Mines (viola) and May Mukle (cello). And there was the English Ensemble, with May Mukle, Rebecca Clarke (viola), and Kathleen Long (piano). Other groups in which she played a prominent role were the English Ensemble Piano Quartet and

120-825: The Celtic Congress, University College concert hall, London; concert included work by John McCormack, the Welsh soprano Megan Foster, and the cellist, Beatrice Harrison Beethoven: no 8, E minor (Op. 59/2): late 1924 Tchaikovsky Quartet 1 in D, Op. 11: 1923 Franck: String Quartet in D: Premiere recording (1925) Bridge Three Idylls: 1923. Ravel: quartet; Introduction and Allegro with John Cockerill , harpist. Borodin: Nocturne Debussy: Quartet G minor Beethoven: No.9 in C Op.59/3 Beethoven: No.6 in Bb Op.18/6. Glazounov: Orientale: 1928 Thomas: Mignon Gavotte 1928; HMV B 2784 "From

135-635: The London station [BBC] we have had many good things during the past month, the pick being the Virtuoso Quartet in Mozart and Debussy…" "Good as these Budapest party records are [Haydn op76/1, HMV D1075-7], they are beaten all round by those of the Virtuoso Quartet in Debussy's G minor… For vividness and sonority this is surely among the finest achievements of the [Gramophone] Company". "… distinguished themselves as virile performers of Beethoven… put up so excellent

150-798: The Sir Landon Ronald Prize. While still a teenager, Dare made her professional cello debut on 1 July 1919 at the Aeolian Hall in London, and also performed as a soloist in a Victory Concert marking the end of World War 1 at the Royal Albert Hall . With the pianist Cecil Dixon she performed for early 2LO radio broadcasts from Marconi House in the early 1920s. In 1938 she formed the Maria Dare String Quartet, with Marjorie Hayward (violin), Susan Davies (violin) and Olive Davidson (viola), which broadcast regularly on BBC radio for

165-1042: The composer premiered his Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor on 7 March 1913 at a Thomas Dunhill Chamber Concert at Steinway Hall. She was also the dedicatee of her teacher Émile Sauret's 24 Etudes Caprices , Op. 64, and Thomas Dunhill 's 3 Pieces for Violin and Piano , Op.17. She led the English String Quartet (which included Frank Bridge on viola), and later the Virtuoso Quartet , the first chamber music group formed specifically for making recordings, with Edwin Virgo (2nd violin), Raymond Jeremy (viola) and its founder Cedric Sharpe (cello). The Quartet did not confine itself to recordings but also broadcast and toured frequently, its repertoire extending to quintets with artists such as Harriet Cohen , William Murdoch , Arnold Bax and Léon Goossens . Marjorie Hayward also played in

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180-585: The full scale String Quartet in G minor (1934-1937), were all heard at an Aeolian Hall concert devoted to her own compositions held on 19 January 1938, in which she performed as both cellist and pianist. Her 1939 Piano Trio won the Royal College of Music Society of Women Musicians composition prize. A number of her occasional pieces for cello, such as Serenade and Valse (Grade 2) and Echoes (Grade 5), still feature as ABRSM graded pieces for examination. Other works include pieces for string orchestra (such as

195-766: The next few years. After serving as a Petty Officer in the Women's Royal Navy Service during World War II, Dare was appointed principal cellist in the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh, performing as the soloist in Tchaikovsky ’s Rococo Variations in 1946. She gave recitals in Budapest , London , and Vienna . In her later years, she performed in the Scottish Trio with Wight Henderson (piano) and Horace Fellows (violin). She worked as

210-541: The sale of the family home: Hayward later expressed her gratitude for this and other support from her musical mother. She had early successes in the concerto repertoire, performing in Prague, Berlin (where she played Ethel Smyth 's Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra with Aubrey Brain ), Paris, Amsterdam and the Hague, but later focussed mainly on chamber music . She was the dedicatee of John Ireland 's short 1911 piece for violin and piano titled Bagatelle . She and

225-588: Was a Fellow of the RAM, and became a Professor there in 1924. The RAM's Marjorie Hayward Award is named in her honour. She married R. G. K. (Rudolf Gustav Karl) Lempfert CBE (b. 1875), Director of the Meteorological Office and in 1930–31 President of the Royal Meteorological Society . Their daughter, Marjorie Lempfert, studied at the RAM, becoming a distinguished viola player and, like her mother,

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