Having met and played folk and classical music together as youngsters, the quartet formed at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as postgraduate students.  1st Prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, and hailed as "brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating" by The Herald, and "superb storytelling by four great communicators" by The Strad Magazine, the Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britain's finest young string quartets, with a strong connection to their Scottish folk music heritage and a commitment to bringing together projects and programmes to expand the string quartet repertoire.