Australian String Quartet will launch both of its national tours for 2026 in Perth, reflecting the Adelaide-based ensemble’s close affinity with WA audiences. Haydn, master of the genre, follows with the definitive String Quartet in A Major, Opus 20, No.6, travelling back to an era when ASQ’s matching Guadagnini instruments were first heard. Camera Icon Australian String Quartet cellist Michael Dahlenburg, violist Chris Cartlidge, and violinists Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew. Bartok’s String Quartet No.4 then broaches “a playground of Hungarian folk influences and raw emotion”. Finally, Beethoven stamps his indelible mark on the season with the String Quartet in B-flat major, Opus 130, and Grosse Fuge, Opus 133.