From 1922 to 1940  Samuel  championed modern composers and their music . The Kutcher String Quartet gave first performances of works of  English composers, introduced new works from abroad  never played before in the UK, tried out new formats of performances  and maintained in their repertoire of over 200 works many belonging to composers of the 20^th century.

1924    Joseph Charles Holbrooke (1878 –1958)

Lady 12th Feb 1925

1924   May 11th   First performance of  Arnold Bax’s Oboe Quintet  for oboe and string quartet.
Hyde Park Hotel  (Mrs. Adele Maddison Chamber Concert) , Leon Goosen (oboe) and the Kutcher String Quartet.

1925 – Feb – Second public performance of Robert Chignell’s  pianoforte Quintet in B minor

1925 – Bernard Hélène Joseph van Dieren – Dutch composer

1925 October. The first appearance in the U.K  of the  Viennese dancer  Fraulein Kieslhausen,  accompanied by the Kutcher Quartet .

Lady –  8th October 1925

Fraulein Kieslhausen ~ 1924

1926 – Mr. Herman Sandby – Danish composer – recital of his  arrangements  in collaboration with Samuel  Kutcher, members of the Kutcher Quartet and others  –   Daily Telegraph 9.11.26

 1926– January 12th – Joseph Holbrooke –  First performance of the Oriental Sonata for piano and violin, written for Samuel Kutcher  which unfortunately didn’t happen because some of the music had got lost in the post.

Aberdeen Newspaper 12 Jan 1926

 1926 Ernő Dohnányi,  Hungarian Composer (1877 –1960) and Alfredo Casella, Italian Composer ( (1883 – 1947)

Daily Telegraph October 23rd 1926	Musical Times December 1st 1926
Alfredo Casella	Ernő Dohnányi

1927 – Christian  Darnton  –  1^st April 1927 String Quartet, op. 23 premiere by the Kutcher Quartet

1932 Contemporary Russian  composers –  Vassilenko, Karagitchev, Litinsky

1932 November – Daily Telegraph Letter to Samuel from the London Contemporary Music Centre

1932 – Bliss Clarinet Quintet – 19^th December – first performance at Bliss’s  home

1933 – Bliss Clarinet Quintet  –  February 17th –  first public  performance  with Frederick Thurston

Evening Standard February 18th

Morning Post February 18th

1934  Dame Ethel Smyth – January Concert in her home town of Woking, Surrey

1939 –  Aloys Fleischmann – Premiere of his Piano Quintet in Cork