Pages of my string quartet Every new volition a mercurial swerve, written in 2009 for the JACK Quartet, will be in display concurrently at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London and at the Museo El Barrio in New York. The first is as part of the Notation and Interpretation Visual Library curated by Lucy Railton (of Kammer Klang). The second is curated by Angélica Negrón as part of the Composers Now series and will also include a sample of the JACK’s premiere performance.
Americas Society presents an entire program of exciting new music by the áltaVoz composers, performed by the JACK Quartet.
Praised for its “powerhouse playing” by The Chicago Sun-Times and “extraordinary precision” by The Boston Globe, the JACK Quartet has quickly established a reputation for giving high-energy performances of today’s most demanding works for string quartet.
áltaVoz, described as “a group to watch” by New Music Connoisseur, is a group of five Latin American, cutting-edge composers living in United States and Europe who work together to organize concerts, lectures and workshops around the world.
Programme
L’ardito e quasi stridente gesto — José Luis Hurtado
Cuarteto No. 3, Música fúnebre y nocturna — Jorge Villavicencio Grossman
Every new volition a mercurial swerve, Cuarteto No.3 — Mauricio Pauly
Corde Vocale — Felipe Lara
This performance now available on CD/download as part of the Altavoz Composers compilation album released October 2010. You can get it here: CDBaby, Amazon, iTunes.
(current score 20090101)
Written for and premiered by the Ikarus Chamber Players at the WMP Concert Hall in New York. October 30th, 2008.
Sarah Beaty – cl
Julia MacLaine – vc
Margaret Dyer – vla
Owen Dalby, Jonathan Chu – vlns
Mauricio Pauly is a Costa-rican composer and electric bass player based in the UK. He is co-director and founder of the Distractfold Ensemble and of the Altavoz Composers.
October 18th 2011
A Greater Horror
Alex Todd, drums
Rodrigo Constanzo, piano
Mauricio Pauly, electric bass
...also,
the Dan Brew Quartet
8pm at Sand Bar, Manchester, UK
120 Grosvenor Street, M1 7HL
£3
Pages of my string quartet Every new volition a mercurial swerve, written in 2009 for the JACK Quartet, will be in display concurrently at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London and at the Museo El Barrio in New York. The first is as part of the Notation and Interpretation Visual Library curated by Lucy Railton (of Kammer Klang). The second is curated by Angélica Negrón as part of the Composers Now series and will also include a sample of the JACK’s premiere performance.
