Alberni Quartet

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Alberni Quartet. Brit. string quartet founded in 1962 by students of RAM ( Dennis Simons, Howard Davis, John White, and Gregory Baron). From 1975 Davis became 1st vn., with Peter Pople, Roger Best, and David Smith. First Western quartet to visit China (1987). Resident quartet RSAMD 1981–8.

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