National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival: Tesla Quartet
Free
Kevin Day — Selected works
Adeliia Faizullina — Selected works
Beatrice Ferreira — Selected works
Gilbert Galindo — Selected works
Grey Grant — Selected works
Clifton Ingram — Selected works
Bonnie Lander — Selected works
Adam Maalouf — Selected works
Leyna Marika Papach — Selected works
Kalia Vandever — Selected works
Kerwin Young — Selected works
Join us for a Digital Discovery concert with The Tesla Quartet who will perform works from their "Alternating Currents" commissioning project, in which Tesla selected 12 freelance composers whose work has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic to write short works for string quartet.
The 45-minute concert will feature works by the following composers:
Eliza Bagg - Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Day - Arlington, TX
Adeliia Faizullina - Los Angeles, CA
Beatrice Ferreira - Montreal, QC
Gilbert Galindo - Queens, NY
Grey Grant - Ann Arbor, MI
Clifton Ingram - Boston, MA
Bonnie Lander - Baltimore, MD
Adam Maalouf - Brooklyn, NY
Leyna Marika Papach - St. Paul, MN
Kalia Vandever - Brooklyn, NY
Kerwin Young - Fairburn, GA
Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. Dubbed “technically superb” by The Strad, the Tesla Quartet has won top prizes in numerous international competitions, most recently taking Second Prize as well as the Haydn Prize and Canadian Commission Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2018, the Tesla Quartet released its debut album of Haydn, Ravel, and Stravinsky quartets on the Orchid Classics label to critical acclaim. BBC Music Magazine awarded the disc a double 5-star rating and featured it as the “Chamber Choice” for the month of December. Gramophone praised the quartet for its “tautness of focus and refinement of detail.” Their second disc on the Orchid Classics label, a collaboration with clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein featuring quintets by Mozart, Finzi, John Corigliano and Carolina Heredia, was released in October 2019.
The livestream will take place at 6pm Eastern / 3pm Pacific.
Watch the livestream here: https://live.nationalsawdust.org/event/tesla-quartet
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About Tesla Quartet
The Tesla Quartet is known throughout the world for their "superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand" (The International Review of Music). From cutting edge contemporary works to established masterpieces, the Tesla Quartet's emotive and thoughtful interpretations reveal the ensemble's deep commitment to the craft and to their ever-expanding repertoire. The group is comprised of Ross Snyder and Michelle Lie on violin, Edwin Kaplan on viola, and Austin Fisher on cello.
https://www.teslaquartet.com/