02/03/2022
Composer's Voice features RUSQUARTET with Contemporary Quartets.
Contemporary Quartets is presenting the works of Annette Kruisbrink, Greg Pfeiffer, and Leonardo Le San.
Contemporary Quartets Project is creating a new way to produce contemporary String Quartets
Vox Novus in collaboration with Virtual Concert Halls will broadcast Contemporary Quartets featuring the RUSQUARTET. The project is designed to help and empower contemporary composers to produce, perform, and record their works for string quartet.
RUSQUARTET was founded in 2001 at the Academic College of Music of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the tutelage of Galina Soboleva, great cellist of the Prokofiev String Quartet. Members of the RUSQUARTET are DMA graduates from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory*where they have been students of the Professor Dmitry Shebalin (Borodin String Quartet).
The musicians are actively promoting contemporary composers and rarely performed compositions. The quartet's programs include Andrei Eshpai's *Concordia discordance, two string quartets by *Mikhail Marutaev, a string quintet for two violins, two violas, and a cello by Alexander Lokshin, as well as compositions by Georges Onslow,Lex van Delden (the Netherlands), Kelly-Marie Murphy (Canada), Steve Martland (Great Britain), and Jonathan Dove (Great Britain), Olli Mustonen (Finland).
Composer Leonardo Le San has had a distinguished career of premiers at Carnegie Hall, The Merkin Hall, The Palais Ehrbar of Vienna, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Harvard Musical Association; as well as, a notable appearance as both composer and pianist at the White House. Leonardo has been featured on RCN and international classical TV through the Euro-channel of Allegro-HD reaching the network’s two million viewers.
As a stylistically diverse composer of chamber, solo, and electronic music, Greg Pfeiffer's works range from unapologetically tonal to unforgivingly atonal. His works have been performed throughout the United States and internationally including performances at the June in Buffalo festival, the Internationale Ferienkurse fĂĽr Neue Musik in Darmstadt, and by groups such as the Boston Microtonal Society, ThingNY, The Curiosity Cabinet and the Contemporary Chamber Players of Stony Brook University.
Dutch guitarist and composer Annette Kruisbrink (1958) has composed over 400 works, primarily for guitar and guitar with other instruments. Her compositions have been published in America, Canada, and various European publishers. She has received numerous prizes and awards at prestigious composition competitions. Kruisbrink holds guitar and composition seminars throughout the world and is often a jury member at international competitions.
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