"three or four (of many)" by David Carlton Adams
Premiered June 8, 2022, at New Music On the Point by
JACK quartet

This piece explores the intersection of texture, just intonation, and renaissance polyphony. Ideas emerge, find expression, are subsumed, and disappear. Oh, and there’s math.

three or four (of many)- JACK quartet (live)

"Threnody" is a reflective piece written after the explosion that occurred in the port of Beirut on the 4th of August 2020.
This piece was workshopped by the JACK Quartet in 2022 as part of JACK Studio.

Threnody

world premiere in Manhattan, December 15, 2023

Passing Fragrance, Hidden Veil (2023) - JACK Quartet

1. Sudden Light for mezzo and string trio by Laura Schwendinger, with poem by Dante Gabriel Rosetti. from Sudden Light, Four text settings on the ephemeral nature of light and life

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: 
I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, 
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. 
You have been mine before,— How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar 
Your neck turn'd so, Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. 
Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight 
Still with our lives our love restore In death's despite, 
And day and night yield one delight once more?

Laura Schwendinger: Quartets

Sudden Light: I. Sudden Light

Performed by JACK Quartet at the 2023 JACK Studio reading sessions.

parla l'anima sola (string quartet nº 1) (2020)

Upcoming

10.10.2025, 17h, Berlin, Berlinerphilharmonie, Kammermusiksaal - Breakdown Resonanzraum No. 2 (2025) - Kammerakademie Potsdam 


24.10.2025, 20h, Paris, Cité de la musique, Salle des concerts - SOUTH MEMPHIS, BITCH (*UA 2025) - ensemble intercontemperain, Festival d'Automne


29.10.2025, 20h, Berlin, Kesselhaus in der Kulturbrauerei - Confections of the Mind, Version 2 (*UA 2025), thermo_doxa (2024), Orchestra (2025) - ensemble mosaik


18.11.2025, 19:30, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal - Isolation Forest (2023) - Ensemble Phace


20.11.2025, 20h, Wien, Musikverein, Gläsener Saal - thermo_doxa (2024) - Black Page Orchestra


24.2.2026, 20h, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle, Grosser Saal - Sketch for Kritter (AT) (2025) - Trixster Orchestra


21.3.2026, 19:30, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal - thermo_doxa (2024) - Ensemble Phace


29.5.2026, 20h, Theater am Alten Markt, Kritter (AT) (2025) - Bielefeld Theater






Photos: 
Profile: by Camilo Pachón, Stiftung Künstlerdorf 2024
Simulation - Part One: © IEMA/Wonge Bergmann

Luis Tenaglia (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1986) has graduated in Composition (with honors) with Marcelo Perticone at the Luis Gianneo Conservatoire, Mar del Plata, and with Rosario Mirigliano at the Santa Cecilia Conservatoire, Rome, Italy, with honors (cum laude), with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Government. Later he went on doing advanced studies under Giorgio Battistelli and Luis Bacalov at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italia, obtaining Diploma di Merito with the former.
He has obtained one of the three prizes at the Txistu Composition Competition EHTE 2024, special mention at the J. C. Paz composition prize of Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Culture Secretary of Argentina Republic), in 2012 and 2016, and special mention at the 5th. Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, Austria), in 2022.
His compositions have been performed in different festivals, theaters and halls of Argentina, Bolivia, Greece, England, Italy, Lithuania and Switzerland by different ensembles (JACK quartet, dissonArt ensemble, Imago Sonora ensemble, Thirty Fingers trio, Ritual trio, Nuove Triospettive, Ensamble Aural), orchestras (Mar del Plata symphonic orchestra, Oxford Sinfonietta), and soloists (Alda Caiello, Iris Oja and Valentín Garvie).
In 2017 he has founded the Ensamble Aural, an instrumental group dedicated to the contemporary music, specially interested in the music of young composers around the world.
From 2016 to 2025 he served as a Professor of Composición III, Análisis de la Música Contemporánea II, Instrumentación y Orquestación II and III, Taller de Sonidos y Medios and Contrapunto I at Luis Gianneo Conservatoire.

Isabella Rahme is a composer, harpist & vocalist living and making music on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia)

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