1. CorTen
2. 4Fe2+ + O2 - 4Fe3+ + 2O2-
3. SubStructure

This piece is a sort of musical diary of life in post-industrial Midwest America. The crumbling landscape is at once barren and beautiful. "CorTen", also known as "weathering steel", is used in architecture, sculpture, and railroad boxcars. The second movement takes its name from the chemical reaction that occurs when water breaks down iron over years; the music is a quick time lapse. The third movement is a requiem for the once proud infrastructure of the deep Rust Belt.
Cornelius Duffalo, violin. Jennifer Choi, violin. Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin, viola. Yves Dharamraj, violoncello.

Check out the score here: 
https://issuu.com/danielgodsil/docs/daniel_godsil-rust__2014__for_str_q

Rust (2014) for string quartet

Sacramento-born, Boston-based contemporary/classical composer. 

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Ryan Suleiman was born in California to Lebanese and Mid-Western parents. His music engages with dreaming, the natural world, and the understated beauty of everyday life. His one-act chamber opera, Moon, Bride, Dogs, was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “a gem” with “an aesthetic that is at once so strange and so accessible.” While his artistic interests vary, he seeks ways of conveying the simultaneity of beauty and dread that characterizes our times. In his work, he is exploring the question what is music and what can it do?

Ryan’s musical output consists of numerous works for orchestra, opera, a puppet show, solo and chamber ensemble, singers, and a piano concerto. In addition to working closely with musicians, he loves collaborating with artists across discipline, and has worked with dancers, writers, puppets, and visual artists. He has been featured by numerous ensembles and festivals, including Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, West Edge Opera, the Sacramento State Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Mise-en, June in Buffalo, and the Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice. His piano cycle, Under Moonlight, was recorded by Jai Jeffryes in his solo album, Amethyst, distributed by Naxos. 

Recent projects include an opera called The School for Girls who Lost Everything in the Fire, a work for socially-distanced soprano and ensemble, and several new solo and chamber works. His podcast, Reflections on Music and Nature, explores the intersection of this topic in the activist and philosophical sense through interviews with musicians. 

​Ryan completed his Ph.D. at University of California, Davis, where he wrote his dissertation on Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto through the lens of dreams and performance. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music and has held teaching positions at the Sacramento State School of Music and UC Davis. He resides in Boston with his partner and several furry animals. More information available at www.ryansuleiman.com.

Composer from SF Bay Area, currently residing in Sacramento.

Daniel Godsil's music, which has been described by the San Francisco Classical Voice as having an “intense dramatic narrative,” draws from such eclectic influences as science fiction, thrash metal, and Brutalist architecture. His more recent work draws inspiration from the natural beauty of Northern California, his current home.

Winner of the 2019 League of Composers/ISCM Steven R. Gerber prize (for Cosmographia) and the 2017 Earplay Donald Aird Composition Competition (for his quartet Aeropittura), Godsil's music has been played by Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, Talujon Percussion, Daedalus Quartet, Lydian String Quartet, Empyrean Ensemble, Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Symphony Orchestra at California State University Fullerton, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, and the Nova Singers, among many others. Recent film scores include the PBS documentary Boxcar People, Man Ray’s 1926 silent film Emak-Bakia and the feature film H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon. Godsil was a finalist in the 2018 Lake George Music Festival chamber composition competition, as well as the 2014 and 2019 Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competitions. His choral works are published by Alliance Music Publishing and NoteNova Publishing.

Born and raised in central Illinois, Godsil (b.1982) is currently pursuing his PhD. in Composition and Theory at the University of California, Davis, studying with Mika Pelo, Laurie San Martin, and Sam Nichols. He holds an MFA in Music Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied with John Fitz Rogers, John Mallia, and Jonathan Bailey Holland. He also holds a BM in Music Composition from Webster University.

Godsil was selected to participate in the 2017 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in Boston, where he had master classes with composers Nicholas Vines and Georg Friedrich Haas.

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(pronounced Road-HEE or Rhoad-DAH)