Just String Quartets - Part 4
Featuring the Isaura String Quartet!
May 14th , 2016 | 8PM | @ Boston Court
70 N Mentor Ave | Pasadena, CA 91106 | $30
Program
Andrew McIntosh – World Premiere
Andrew McIntosh – Two Small Quartets
John Luther Adams – The Wind in High Places
Kraig Grady – Chippewayan Echoes
Gloria Coates – String Quartet #9
Performers
Emily Call - violin
Madeline Falcone - violin & viola
Melinda Rice - violin & viola
Betsy Rettig - cello
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The Isaura String Quartet promotes traditional and contemporary chamber music through live performance, workshops, and collaborative projects with composers and interdisciplinary artists. The Los Angeles-based ensemble has worked closely with composers including Anne LeBaron, Gloria Coates, Mark Menzies, Cassia Streb, Daniel Corral, Sean Griffin, and Charles Gaines. Recent performances include the world premiere of Gloria Coates’ chamber opera Stolen Identity, the west coast premiere of Coates’ String Quartet No. 9, a recording for the 2015 Venice Biennale of new music by Charles Gaines/Sean Griffin, and scenes from Anne LeBaron’s new opera LSD: The Opera with Grammy Award-winning ensemble Partch at REDCAT and at The Schindler House in collaboration with Opera Povera. In July and August ISQ presented sa·lon, a series in collaboration with Space Art Center, featuring four programs with special guests and new works by Los Angeles composers. Members of the Isaura String Quartet are Madeline Falcone and Emily Call, violins, Melinda Rice, viola, and Betsy Rettig, cello.

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