String Quartet no. 8
William Bolcom
Guitar Quintet
Wolfgang Rihm
with Eliot Fisk, guitar
String Quartet no. 5
Elliott Carter
Anea Crystal
Chaya Czernowin
with the Shanghai Quartet
Poems from Tang
Zhou Long
String Quartet no. 12 (World Premiere)
William Bolcom
String Quartet no. 14
Antonín Dvořák
Wolfgang Rihm is "someone whose unstoppable
musical creativity, whose tumult of pieces for
orchestras, opera houses, string quartets, for the
familiar forms of musical institutions, and for famous
soloists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, makes him one
of the most approachable, engaging and profound
composers writing music today." —The Guardian (UK)
"The idea is not to give the audience
as much understanding as possible. ...
I would like a person who hears my
music to experience something. And
I hope that the experience would be
visceral and very, very strong."
—Chaya Czernowin
Arditti
Quartet
Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan (violins),
Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello)
SATURDAY, APRIL 1 @ 8:0 0 P.M.
Shanghai
Quartet
Weigang Li and Yi-Wen Jiang (violins),
Honggang Li (viola), Nicholas Tzavaras (cello)
SUNDAY, APRIL 2 @ 3:0 0 P.M.
Photo: Astrid Karger
Photo: Courtesy of Shanghai Quartet
Dizzy Gillespie, photo by Carl Van Vechten/Library of Congress; Gabriela Lena Frank, photo © Mariah Tauger;
Wolfgang Rihm, photo provided; Chaya Czernowin, photo courtesy of Schott Promotion/Astrid Ackermann
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