Kutcher String Quartet

The Kutcher String Quartet's first public performance was in May 1922 at a concert at Wigmore Hall, London, where they accompanied the singer Edith Bartlett.

The members of the Quartet in this first foray into the public arena were Samuel Kutcher, Julius Rosenthal (2nd violin), Frank Howard (viola), Giovanni Barbirolli, (and at later concerts) Ambrose Gauntlett (cello).

[6] They performed with some of the most well known musicians of the day, pianists Harriet Cohen, Malcolm Sargent, Myra Hess, & William Murdoch; Leon Goossens (oboe), Frederick Thurston (clarinet), and accompanied singers such as Dorothy Helmrich, Peggy Stack, Pouishnoff and Anne Thursfield.

Whilst they toured the Music Societies of Britain every year, they only ventured onto the continent on two know occasions: to the Netherlands in December 1930 and Poland April 1939.

[10] 1st violin Samuel Kutcher 1922 – 1940 2nd violin Julius Rosenthal 1922 Kenneth Skeaping 1925 George Whitaker 1925-29 Pierre Tas 1929-31 Frederick Grinke 1931-37 Max Salpeter 1939-40 Viola Frank Howard 1922 Leonard Rubinstein 1925 Cecil Bonvalot 1925 Henry "Harry" Berly 1925 James Lockyer 1925-29 Raymond Jeremy 1929-39 Leonard Ruben 1939-40 Cello Ambrose Gauntlett 1922 John Barbirolli 1922 -1925 Edward J. Robinson 1925 ( for a recording) Ambrose Gauntlett 1925-29 Douglas Cameron 1929-39 George Roth 1939-40 1925: Kutcher Quartet: Mozart Quartet 13 (Vienna No.