:blurt Quatuor Bozzini
Program, P.2417
- Identifier
- P.2417
- Category
- New Music
- Location
- Open Space, 510 Fort St. 2nd Floor
- Date
- May 13, 2017
- Description
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On Saturday May 13 at 8:00 p.m., Canada’s most daring string quartet Quatuor Bozzini will perform a concert featuring :blurt by Jennifer Walshe inspired by Piet Mondriaan’s Trafalgar Square.
“The idea of writing solely pitched-based music for string quartet did not make sense to me; it seemed like trying to think in a completely different language in which I had a vocabulary which consisted only of adverbs.” Walshe expressed to The Guardian in an interview on November 11, 2010. To expand the vocabulary of this pieces she found herself experimenting with the instruments of the quartet to bring together :blurt described in her own words as “a noisy thicket of scratches and muffled shrieks, knocks and dim sinister tickings”.
Along with :blurt the program will also include works by two composers from Victoria: Cassandra Miller’s About Bach and Christopher Butterfield’s Fall. To round out the performance, the evening will finish with a composition by one of their very own: Nyanse by violinist Alissa Cheung.Quatuor Bozzini: Clemens Merkel (violin), Alissa Cheung (violin) Stéphanie Bozzini (viola), Isabelle Bozzini (cello)