String Quartet

Violinists Mabelle Young-Eun Park and Olwen Miles along with violist Jamie Howe (cellist TBC) bring their highly regarded string quartet chamber experience to Wakefield. Their concert will feature two major highlights of the string quartet repertoire from Beethoven and Haydn respectively, between works from Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge.

Mabelle Young-Eun Park is a German born violinist from South Korea. Mabelle is the 1st prize strings section winner of the 2025 Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition. She was awarded the 2025 Prince’s Prize, “an honorarium to recognise the most promising young musician amongst the Musicians’ Company’s Award winners”, as well as the Prudi Hoggarth Audience Award in 2025. She recently graduated Artist Diploma programme with full scholarship at the Royal College of Music as a Sue Balston Scholar, where she received The Ian Stoutzker, W.H. Reed & Stanley Blagrove Prize for winning the Violin Competition.

Olwen Miles is a dynamic and accomplished young violinists currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying with So-Ock Kim and having graduated with First Class Honours from the same institution. Born and raised in Palermo, Sicily, Olwen trained with Iuliu Hamza and Remus Azoitei. She has performed widely across Europe. Highlights include appearances at Wigmore Hall, solo engagements with orchestras such as the Maidenhead, Brescia Masters, and Watford Symphony Orchestras, and performances at venues including Peleș Castle in Romania. In 2026 Olwen was selected for Gerhard Schultz’s class at IMS Prussia Cove.

​Born in Belfast in 2002, Jamie Howe has recently completed his third year at the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying viola and violin. Formerly Head Boy at Chetham’s School of Music, Jamie began his viola studies with Graham Oppenheimer and is now under the tutelage of Jon Thorne. Whilst at Chetham’s Jamie worked with the Manchester Camerata and took part in a recording of a Mozart piano concerto with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet under the direction of Gábor Takács-Nagy.

Jamie has played with the Academy Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov, Sir Mark Elder and John Wilson amongst others. He recently completed the Professional Experience Scheme with the Ulster Orchestra and has since been invited to do some professional deputy work. Jamie is a former principal viola in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and is the current principal in the Ulster Youth Orchestra. He has enjoyed masterclasses with Clifton Harrison, Jane Atkins and Garth Knox.

Please note, this is an afternoon concert.