The Harpham Quartet is steadily becoming regarded as a formidable new talent. Selected as Park Lane Group Young Artists, they performed at the opening night of the 2008 New Year Series at the Purcell Room. Other recent performance highlights include appearances at the Royal Festival Hall, Fairfield Halls, Conway Hall, Rachmaninov Hall, Moscow and Cadogan Hall, as 2008 ‘RCM Rising Stars’. Festival appearances include the Harrogate International Festival, Mostly Mozart at the Barbican, King’s Lynn and Chichester Festivities. A successful concert at the Honiton Festival has resulted in an ongoing collaboration with clarinetist Emma Johnson MBE.

 Prestigious performances of 20th and 21st Century works to date have included the chamber music of Mark Anthony Turnage for the 2008 BBC Proms ‘Composer Portraits’ series which was broadcast by BBC Radio 3, the Malcolm Arnold Festival and the RCM Transcendent Festival, for which their performance of Lachenmann’s String Quartet ‘Grido’, received critical acclaim. In the summer of 2009 they collaborated with the Medici Quartet in the UK premiere performance of Sir John Tavener’s ‘Towards Silence’, also broadcast on Radio 3. In the autumn of 2009 the Quartet returned to the Southbank for performances of Peter Maxwell Davies’ fourth String Quartet at the Purcell Room and Schnittke's third String Quartet at the Royal Festival Hall.

 The Harpham Quartet's training took place at the RCM where they were awarded the Helen Just and Susan Connell Prize for Chamber Music. They attended the Britten-Pears 31st International String Quartet Academy, receiving coaching from Alistair Tate and the Alban Berg Quartet. The quartet has also received guidance from Irvine Arditti, Paul Robertson of the Medici Quartet and the late Dr Christopher Rowland. They have performed in masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy and members of the Arditti, Keller, Vermeer, Chilingirian, Endellion, Brodsky and Maggini Quartets.