The Alma Moodie Quartet, which has been wowing Canberra audiences since its modest debut at the Campbell Scout Hall in 2021, has announced new members and a new management.

They’ve recently signed with Elaine Armstrong’s Emblem Artists in Melbourne, and their new cellist, Miles Mullins-Chivers, has just landed in Australia from Amsterdam, joining founding members Anna da Silva Chen and Canberra-born Kristian Winther and newly-appointed violist James Wannan to play three concerts in the new Pier Pavilion at Barangaroo, July 10-12.

They’ll also be showing off the new line-up at a concert at Wesley Music Centre late in July featuring quartets by Tchaikowsky, Bartok and Max Reger, who was the mentor to their namesake, Alma Moodie.

Two more concerts will follow in Canberra in October.

All members are string soloists in their own right, but the Alma Moodie Quartet, they say, gives them scope to maintain a passionate commitment to chamber music, so that the group, under a slightly different line-up, has so far been seen at Canberra International Music Festival, Tasmanian Chamber Music Festival, Hayllar Beethoven Festival, Hayes St Studio series, Mesh, Elder Hall and regional centres.

The quartet takes its name from the early 20th century Australian Queensland-born violinist, Alma Moodie, who, despite a formidable reputation in Europe between the wars, has largely been forgotten.

The quartet, like Moodie, is dedicated to classical music such as Beethoven and Mozart, and the neglected music of the early 20th century.

Alma Moodie Quartet, Wesley Music Centre, July 22.