Contemporary string quartets

10 Gerhard - String Quartet No 2 - VI

World premiere played by the Signum Quartet, CBSO Centre, Birmingham

Volans String Quartet No. 12 played by the Signum Quartet

Recorded by Lydian Quartet

I – NODE: Tuning Knot  00:00-03:22
II – Recently Found Fragments: Chant Loop  03:28-11:38
III – Striding Rituals: Nocturnal Gatherings for Mass Wooing  11:44-17:30
III.5 or 5.IV – Optional habits  17:43-18:40
IV – CODEX: I know I know this (…almost remembering…)  18:44-25:04
V – Turn the Corner: Post-Rapture Celebration  25:08-28:04
VI - NODE: Ex nihilo…In nihil [-for Mary Ruth-]  28:05-35:30

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past is dedicated to the Lydian String Quartet and was composed as part of their Composition Commission Award, which was made possible by the generosity and vision of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn. It was composed in San Francisco and Cambridge and is 35 minutes long.

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past (2013-14/rev. 2017) for string quartet

for string quartet

Premiered by faculty members of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan in Kaohsiung City Music Hall on 7 May, 2015

Performances:
- Lee Shi Mei, Siew Yi Li, Jonathan Lee and Dylan Lee in Recital Theatre, The Esplanade on  8 December, 2015 during 1st Singapore Asian Composers Festival
- Vietnam National Academy of Music, Vietnam on 15 November, 2016 during ACL Conference & Festival/ 2nd “Asia-Europe” New Music Festival 2016.

String Quartet No.1: BE (2015)

Another Place for string quartet (LIVE) played by Spektral Quartet

V1 06 String Quartet No. 3  Tapas - VI. Six

V1 04 String Quartet No. 3  Tapas - IV. With Energy

String Quartet in D Minor/i

This is the second movement of my string quartet called "Icarus." This recording is played by Iain Crampton, Ariana Kim, Po Reum Cho, and Earl Lee at the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine.

Julie Hill's Album

Icarus String Quartet - 2nd movement

"The Bird for String Quartet" is a song from my musical experiment, The ReMix Tape.  It was inspired by Anderson .Paak's "The Bird," and I arranged it in a string quartet style with a piano accompaniment and added percussion after a few measures to get it into a groove.  It was intended to imitate what sometimes happens when a group of musicians starts a song that maybe they've never played together before, other musicians are added in, then by the end it all clicks.

The Bird for String Quartet ft. Chester Daigle II, piano (inspired by Anderson .Paak's "The Bird")

Lion's Cage String Quartet

By Lydia Lukyanov

“Destiny of the Harmonies” (DTH) was the first string quartet I ever composed. While I have always loved classical music, and especially string instruments, my style of composition has always been cinematic. With DTH, I wanted to experiment with a classical orchestra set-up: a string quartet including two violins, a viola and cello, and create a cinematic-style piece. DTH was also my first piece ever to be played live, and was performed by a string ensemble in summer 2015.

While I took music lessons throughout my childhood and participated in my school’s orchestra, I always found myself sidetracking from my classical music practice and writing my own pieces. Eventually, when I was 14, I decided to take composing lessons, particularly to score film. Since then, I have written music for various short films and have been named a youth finalist in the international Marvin Hamlisch Film Scoring Competition.

Destiny Of The Harmonies (String Quartet)

This is my first String Quartet, I started this months ago just to see if I was able to write a string quartet, I initially didn't like it so I sort of shelved it. I rediscovered it a couple months ago and now I've finished it up! Let me know what you think!

String Quartet No.1

String Quartet No.1 in G - Major

String Quartet

Performed by The Elysian String Quartet
Released on Nonclassical Recordings, 2004.
Available to buy: http://bit.ly/2vAX9T9

Select Classical Works 2003-2012

String Quartet No.1 4th Movement

String Quartet No.2 4th Movement

emerge, for string quartet

Recorded by Momenta Quartet

Apple wood is carried as a talisman to attract love and long life and apples are and important ingredient in spells of love, immortality, and healing.-from Jane Gifford’s “The Wisdom of Trees”

In the summer of 2014, the Momenta Quartet and I spent a week at Avaloch Farm Music Institute working on the beginning of a new String Quartet. Surrounded by apple orchards at this professional musician’s retreat, musicians rehearsed all day, took walks through the woods, and spent evenings listening to each other perform. There, time slowed and was reflected in the stillness of clouds hovering over a nearby lake.String Quartet: In Irish Mythology, Emhain Abhlach (pronounced similar to Avaloch) is an island paradise of everlasting beauty whose residents danced the days away. 

String Quartet: Avaloch is a single, fifteen-minute long movement. The work is dedicated to Alfred Tauber and Deborah Sherr, who had the combined vision to create an amazing place for performers and composers to unite in the creation of new and important musical works.

String Quartet: Avaloch

String Quartet No. 1 'Montes'

String Quartet No. 1 'Montes': 3rd mov Music and Land

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

Contemporary string quartets

Robert Knote