10 Jun String Quartet No. 8: Nowhere Safe (In Gaza)
The writing of String Quartet No. 8: Nowhere Safe (in Gaza) began December 2023 and it will be completed in 2025.
My eighth string quartet is my personal reflection on witnessing a genocide unfold in front of me, while my tax dollars fund it, whereas my third string quartet, String Quartet No: 3: Night Songs (Nachtliederen) (2005) is my reflection on the life, work, journals, letters, and murder of young Dutch Jewish holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, who was killed by Nazis decades before I was born. Both works are a testament to or of injustice when there is a power imbalance and imprisonment and torture, starvation, and systemic murder of countless human beings.