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dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) (2017–18)
for string quartet and sine waves

Commissioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, and the Proquartet Association.

Live recording at November Music
Quatuor Diotima (Franck Chevalier, Pierre Morlet, Constance Ronzatti,Yun Peng Zhao)

dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) (2017–18), for string quartet and sine waves

redeemed and blessed,
working with precious people,
dreaming of healing nations.

Yannai Schrire was born in Jerusalem in 2006. He started studying piano in 2020 and composition the following year at the Israeli Arts and Science Academy. In 2023 he won first prize in the Israeli Conservatory of Music's National Composition Competition (ages 15-21). 
Currently he is pursuing a composition BA in the Mozarteum Universität Salzburg, under the tutelage of Sarah Nemtsov, where he explores intricacies of sound.

Aaron Michael Smith (UN/NO) is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA.  Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another.  He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers and other musicians.

masters: 
composition with Joshua Fineberg & Rodney Lister @ Boston University
undergrad: 
music composition & viola performance @ Indiana University Jacobs School of Music - Bloomington, Indiana
from a small town in northern Indiana called Wabash.  

contact me here or at aaronmichaelcomposer AT gmail.com

dead wasps in the jam-jar (iii) (2017–18), for string quartet and sine waves

Clara Iannotta