our projects

In addition to our touring work, we curate and design our own projects throughout the year.

BRIDGING
East Lothian

Bridging is the first programme of its kind that brings together a string quartet and a local community.

The Maxwell Quartet will be resident artists in East Lothian from 2024-2027, in a mutually beneficial programme which at once offers the quartet financial support, time and space to develop their artistic goals, but also to provide the community with access to chamber music, music education, social cohesion, and to target identified areas of deprivation based on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

LOCH SHIEL FESTIVAL
Highlands

The West Highlands of Scotland - one of our favourite places in the world. So much natural, rugged beauty and inspiration in the landscape. In 2015, our cellist Duncan was invited to become artistic director of the long-running chamber music festival, Loch Shiel Festival, and we are delighted to be the ongoing associate ensemble. Every year in late April/early May, we travel up to this amazing part of Scotland and perform with friends and mentors on the shores of Loch Shiel, one of Scotland’s longest lochs, close to the coast and the Western Isles.

WORKSONGS
Scotland-wide

Worksongs is the latest project from the Maxwell Quartet. It brings together songs, dances, and stories from times past, borne out of the historic industries that Scotland is renowned for. Travelling from the East of Scotland’s fishing and sea trades, to the Jute Mills of Dundee in Central Scotland, and the Hebridean traditions of Tweed and Wool making, the programme is a historic tour of Scotland’s hardworking societies, woven together in the Maxwell Quartet’s own impressionistic and sensitive reworkings of traditional songs.