Working with your lover

What benefits are there in making art with your life partner, and does it mean you’re always bringing your work home?
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Goldner String Quartet: image supplied

‘If music be the food of love, play on,’ wrote Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. It’s advice which the four members of the Goldner String Quartet – consisting of two married couples – have clearly taken to heart.

The Australian chamber ensemble, whose four members have been playing together since 1995, are renowned for their exquisite performances – so does being romantically linked give its members an extra edge that other ensembles lack?

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts