Commissioned by Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA), the San Francisco-based non-profit organization of the Kronos Quartet, for 50 for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a string quartet commissioning, performance, education, and legacy project of unprecedented scope and potential impact. Kronos...Read more
Commissioned by the Apollo Chamber Players
World premiere scheduled for April 2016, Houston, Texas
Introduction: Out of sea-mist, in medias res
(Aria: Adagio lugubre)
I. Istria: Hrvatska Obala (Croatian Coast)
(Rondo: Allegro assai)
II. Uspavankas (Lullabies)
(Waltz: Larghetto cantabile) (attacca)
III. Dalmatian Hinterland...Read more
Text by Daniel Varoujan
Written in observance of the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide in 2015
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Commissioned by Kronos Quartet
Inspired by the life and writing of young Dutch writer and Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum (1914-1943)
In creative preparation for writing the quartet, Alexandra du Bois traveled throughout The Netherlands and Poland after receiving grants from...Read more
Commissioned by Kronos Quartet. Arrangement of a Sardinian lament originally for men’s choir
World premiere: May 2007, Kronos Quartet, Carriage House Theatre at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
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World premiere: February 2004, Kuttner Quartet, Indiana University’s String Quartet-In-Residence; Shin-Young Kwon, Eriko Tsuchihashi, violins, Daniel Stewart, viola, Jocelyn Butler, cello, Ford Hall at the Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana; New York Premiere: 2008, Arbor Mundi Music Ensemble’s...Read more
Commissioned by the Kronos Quartet as part of the first Kronos: Under 30 Project
World premiere: April 2003, Kronos Quartet, Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Detroit Premiere: 2007, New Music Detroit, Contemporary Art...Read more
Commissioned by the Savannah Music Festival World premiere: March 2013, Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano, Benny Kim, violin, Carla Maria Rodrigues, viola, Camden Shaw, cello, Joseph Conyers, double bass, Lucas Theatre, Savannah, Georgia. Dedicated to family friend Timothy O’Brien (1957-2012) and elephant whisperer...Read more
Commissioned by Del Bryant in honor of the 50th anniversary of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant’s songs
World premiere: September 2007, Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music, Nashville, Tennessee
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Original version for string quartet commissioned and premiered by Kronos Quartet. Arrangement for woodwind quintet commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City
World premiere: May 2007 throughout public schools in New York, Brooklyn and the Bronx
Score/parts available
Night...Read more