Sarah Grace Bindrim, Violin
Ryan Tolentino, Violin
Rebecca Sinclair Kim, Viola
Steven Farr, Cello

Quartet No. 1 in C Minor

Composer  I  Writer  I  Musician

Education:  
University of Utah, PhD in music theory/composition (2019-2023)
                    East Carolina University, M.M in music theory/composition (2016-18)
                    Newberry College, B.M., clarinet performance/theory, jazz studies minor (2012-16)

For questions/inquiries:  dallasherndonmusic@gmail.com

Through cyclical, everyday mundanities like cooking a next meal or answering a phone call from a loved one, we weave webs of positions towards ourselves and others that inevitably collide, creating the structure and flow of our lives. The significance of these ordinary moments often slips past our awareness, though in these moments’ constancy they do more to shape and represent our lives than the scarcer, high-intensity milestones that we look forward to or that stick out in our memory.

My intermedia sound installations and staged music theater works transport participants to dramatized recreations of these small moments. I use combinations of music and field recordings, video and lighting, performance and narrative, as well as site-specificity and audience interactivity to plunder these moments’ emotional depths, expose their intimacies, and elevate their meanings within our lives.

Quartet No. 1 in C Minor

Dallas J. Herndon