The Formalist Quartet

The Formalist Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to performing a variety of works ranging from baroque to contemporary works and world premiers. Their debut performance was given on September 25th, 2006, the 100th birthday of Dmitry Shostakovich, to honor his music and his memory. Since then the quartet has performed many more of his works as an ongoing project to perform all fifteen string quartets. Other composers the quartet has played include Ori Barel, Ryan Tanaka, Aaron Helgeson, Juan Cristobal Cerillo, Carsten Hennig, Luigi Nono, Igor Stravinsky, Mauricio Rodriquez, Kristian Ireland, Leos Janacek, Alfred Schnittke, David T. Little, Martin Loyato, Sean Shepherd, Art Jarvinen, James Tenney, and many others. Past performances have been given at the Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts; REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Diego; the University of Nevada, Reno; Cornelia Street Cafe, New York; MOSA Concert Series, New York; Princeton University; Stanford University; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Flatfile Galleries, Chicago; the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts; and the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades; the Festival of Microtonal Music; and the Et Cetera New Music Festival. Upcoming projects include a CD, a second East Coast tour, and an eventual China tour featuring repertoire by Roger Reynolds, Luigi Nono, Steve Reich, Timothy McCormack, Alban Berg, Alfred Schnittke, and others.Created with mySpace Profile Editor