Celebrating South African music: the Signum Quartet – The Strad

Four musicians from the renowned Signum Quartet in formal black attire hold string instruments, standing against a gray backdrop.

Carlos María Solare meets the members of the Signum Quartet towards the end of their two-year-long project to commission and perform brand new works that mark 30 years since the fall of apartheid in South Africa

Since first meeting the Signum Quartet a few years ago at the Hitzacker Summer Music Days in Lower Saxony, I’ve been closely following the endeavours of what must be one of the most enterprising string quartets around. Not for…