One of the most established British String Quartets, The Heath Quartet formed in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

They were selected for representation by YCAT, won the 2008 TROMP competition, and the 2012 Ensemble Prize at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where they are now regular visitors. In 2016 they won the GRAMOPHONE Chamber Award for their recording of the Tippett quartets, and in May 2013 became the first ensemble in fifteen years to win the prestigious RPS Young Artists Award. Their Tippett album was followed by two discs recorded for Harmonia Mundi/PIAS and part-funded by a BBT Special Ensemble Scholarship featuring Tchaikovsky’s first and third quartets (BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week) and the complete Bartók quartets (2017 Limelight Chamber Music Award; nominated for 2018 GRAMOPHONE Chamber Award). Their most recent release on Signum Records with Carolyn Sampson features works by Berg, Webern and Schoenberg. Recent highlights include a two-season residency at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, their Barcelona debut in Palau de la Musica Catalana, a Beethoven series at Bath Festival, debuts at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Saffron Hall and Cheltenham Festival, as well as concerts at Handelsbeurs Ghent, Aldeburgh and Norfolk & Norwich festivals.

The 2023/24 season the Heath Quartet toured the USA, give a live broadcast with Steven Osborne for the BBC Proms, and in BBC Radio 4's How to Play; a special programme focussing in Schuberts 'Death and the Maiden' Quartet. They gave the opening coffee concert at the newly renovated Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and enjoyed collaborations with, amongst others, Tom Poster, Ben Goldscheider and the Elias String Quartet.

In 2025 The Heath Quartet became String Quartet in Residence at Middlesex University.

Discography

Bartok: String Quartets HMM907661/2
Limelight Magazine Recording of the Year & Chamber Recording of the Year 2017
Shortlisted for Gramophone Chamber Award 2018

Tchaikovsky: String Quartets 1&3 HMU 907665/2
BBC Radio 3 Disk of the Week
The Sunday Times Disk of the Week

Tippett: String Quartets WHLIVE0080/2
Gramophone Award Winner 2016

Berg: String Quartet - Webern: Langsamer Satz -
Schoenberg: String Quartet No.2 SIGCD712
BBC Radio 3 Disk of the Week
Presto Music Recording of the Week

Bracing Change 2 - Grime: String Quartet No.2 NMCD242
Gramophone Editor's Choice