Carmen Flores
            
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              I ❤ my creative family | Filipino-British-American | Violist @villiersquartet | Director @nottchamberfest | Instagram @chamberviola
              
              Nottingham, England
            
            
              
              Joined May 2019
            
            
           Scenes from our culminating #BridgingCommunities concert at @visayasstateu with young musicians in Leyte, #Philippines. Thank you to all the participants! Every moment sharing our music was a treasure 🎶🇵🇭🇬🇧 Thank you @phBritish & #ConnectionsThroughCulture for your support! 
          
                
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             Nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers have been working without pay for weeks, ensuring the safety of more than 50,000 daily operations across the national airspace system (NAS). As we head into this weekend, a surge in callouts is straining staffing levels at multiple 
          
                
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             To all our musical ghosts and goblins, Happy Halloween! 🐈⬛🎶 🎃 
          
                
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             "intimate works which challenge the listener to remove the baggage of daily life at the door, and enter the world of quietness and stillness" @carmflors @VilliersQuartet on Ailsa Dixon's Variations on Love Divine @resonusclassics 🎧  https://t.co/WbTf99g3K8 
          
          
                
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             Ailsa Dixon's Lost Scherzo given another airing @BBCRadio3 @MannGeorgia - this charming mercurial piece disappeared for over half a century before the ms turned up in an attic. 🎧 @VilliersQuartet @resonusclassics on The Spirit of Love chamber music album 
          
                
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             Thank you to @JdP_oxford for hosting us, where we played Schubert's "Rosamunde" Quartet and premiered "Forest Edge" by Alexander McNamee. We'll be returning there in November for composition workshops. We wish all students and faculty at @hilda_beastoxf a great start to term! 
          
                
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             Thank you to everyone who came to our 'Songs of Sherwood Forest' performance last week at @nottinghamcastle! It was a lovely time of new music, new collaborations, and a new space! #Nottingham
          
          
                
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             coming up: Villiers String Quartet with Alexander McNamee (piano) 12 October 2025 / 7pm  https://t.co/OpKv9QXjcb 
          
          
                
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             The Villiers Quartet gave two brilliant recitals last season and we can't wait for their next concert! More details below: Villiers String Quartet with Alexander McNamee (piano) 12 October 2025 / 7pm 6.15pm, pre-concert talk: Dr Peter Copley  https://t.co/OpKv9QXjcb 
          
          
                
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             Today we share a spotlight on our very own Carmen Flores, who perform Oct 4th at "Songs of Sherwood Forest" @carmflors is a founding member of the @VilliersQuartet which is Quartet-in-Residence at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building at Oxford University. 📷by Magda Kuczmik 
          
                
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             Here are some words from @carmflors about our #VQDiscovery SCHUBERT Edition! The course begins Nov 10th and we take you through the context & composition of Schubert's epic String Quartet in G Major, D 887. To sign up, email us villiersquartet@gmail.com #VQDiscovery
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             Thanks @ForrestMark @BBCRadio3 for telling the story of #AilsaDixon's Lost Scherzo and sharing this rediscovered work on air. Written 1955 @durham_uni @MusicDurhamUni, it disappeared for over half a century. Now recorded @VilliersQuartet @resonusclassics
          
          
              #NowListening to The Lost Scherzo by @musicailsadixon played by @VilliersQuartet on @BBCRadio3 Breakfast with @ForrestMark Find out more about the significant new recording of this & other chamber music & songs by Ailsa Dixon below ⬇️
            
          
                
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             📣BROADCAST UPCOMING! Tonight, Saturday Sept 20th, our performance of "Strange Loops" by Jack Van Zandt will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 "New Music Show" The link below is available worldwide for live streaming and then on demand after the broadcast!  https://t.co/fDBPRMmJdW 
          
          
            
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             Great joy to bring to the world a very special project - my new solo album Piano Works by British composer John Ireland, out on @resonusclassics on 17 October! Watch this space. 
          
                
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             Thanks to @phBritish & their #ConnectionsThroughCulture grants, I was able to bring these beautiful @Baerenreiter editions to music students in my #BridgingCommunities project in the Philippines. These will go to young musicians who otherwise would not have access to these works. 
          
                
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             Thanks to the @phBritish #ConnectionsThroughCulture, we present Bridging Communities in Music: String Ensembles in Manila and Leyte. The project will deepen musical connections between musicians & provide mentorship opportunities for young string players in Manila and Leyte 🎻 
          
                
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             This week I will be delivering my music project "Bridging Communities in Music" supported by @phBritish in #manila & #BaybayCity, Philippines. We leave on Monday to begin! #ConnectionsThroughCulture [Pic from 2 years ago w/my cousin Raymond while we were playing duets in Manila] 
          
                
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             'such atmospheric music, really spectral and silvery....Ailsa Dixon's utterly unique soundworld' - @MannGeorgia's response @BBCRadio3 to Shining Cold on @resonusclassics performed by @LucyCoxSoprano, Charlie Draper, @carmflors and Leo Melvin. 
           Did you hear Shining Cold by @musicailsadixon on @BBCRadio3 Essential Classics this morning? @MannGeorgia described this haunting piece as an example of Dixon’s instinct for “creating really intriguing soundworlds”. Listen again from 2:12 Find out more here 
            
                
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