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Founded in 2001, The Bacchus Quartet is a young professional all female quartet, whose polished and exciting performances of classical and light music will add atmosphere and class to any event. Trained at the Royal College of Music and The Royal Academy of Music in London, The Bacchus Quartet has performed in many renowned venues nationally, including The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace, The Foreign Office, Lord’s, Villa Park and Epsom Race Course. They have performed at many corporate functions as well as more intimate venues, hotel weddings and at the clients home. They have appeared on live television and for royalty, as well as being guest artists on many film and pop recordings.

The Bacchus Quartet has recently performed as guest entertainers on cruise ships which sailed to Ireland, Greenland, Iceland, The Caribbean and USA, and South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Morocco.

The quartet is lead by Leonie Adams who graduated from the Royal College of Music with the Stuart Knussen Prize and the Helen Just Prize for Violoncello in 2004 after studying with Igor Sitnikov in Moscow in 2000. She studied with Philip de Groote and Alexander Boyarsky at RCM. Léonie was awarded the Raphael Sommer Scholarship, the Young Musicians Trust Scholarship, the Sarah Hebdon/BOES Scholarship, the Dennis Carr Memorial Trust Fund Scholarship and the Henry Dixon Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Music to study for her Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. Her RAM professors are Philip Sheppard and Josephine Knight. She has participated in masterclasses with Colin Carr, Steven Doane and Bernard Greenhouse amongst others.

As a soloist and as an ensemble member, Leonie has been involved in many Radio, Television and Film recordings and collaborations, as well as performing on backing tracks for Pop acts. Whilst studying in London she held positions such as principal ‘cellist with the RCM Symphony Orchestra and LPYO and soloist in the New Perspectives Ensemble at the RCM as well as the Manson Ensemble at RAM and enjoys promoting contemporary works. She was a  member of the European Union Youth Orchestra, The United World Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and was principal with the Young Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra.