Rush Hour Music in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
The Cramer Quartet performs in the intimate and sumptuous surroundings of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.
The Cramer Quartet will perform Paola Prestini’s It if Finished at the Composers Now Festival hosted by Tania León.
Join us for the latest chapter of Haydn: Dialogues, our multi-year cycle combining Haydn’s 68 string quartets with sixteen new commissions by composers of marginalized identities. On December 7, we’ll perform 30 mengstraße, a new work by inti figgis-vizueta alongside Haydn's Op. 71 No. 2 string quartet. The second half of the program will feature a solo set from violist Annie Garlid, AKA UCC Harlo, who will perform selections from United and Topos as well as unreleased music.
Portland Bach Experience presents the next installment of Haydn: Dialogues with the World Premiere of inti figgis-vizueta’s 30 mengstaße performed alongside Haydn’s Op. 71 string quartets.
Portland Bach Experience presents the next installment of Haydn: Dialogues with the World Premiere of inti figgis-vizueta’s 30 mengstaße performed alongside Haydn’s Op. 71 string quartets.
Portland Bach Experience presents the next installment of Haydn: Dialogues with the World Premiere of inti figgis-vizueta’s 30 mengstaße performed alongside Haydn’s Op. 71 string quartets.
In this concert, the Cramer Quartet will play music both by the Joseph Haydn, father of the string quartet, as well works from Jessica Meyer and Caroline Shaw.
No composer embodied the blend of strict protocol and evocative sensuality of 18th century Spain better than Luigi Boccherini, court composer to Infante Luis Antonio of Spain. The music of American composer Brian Nabors draws from combinations of Jazz Funk, R&B, and Gospel with the modern flair of contemporary classical music. These worlds collide in spectacular program of string chamber music that includes the world premiere of a quintet commissioned from Nabors by CMSCVA for our 2022-23 season.
The Cramer Quartet performs Paris at Dawn: Revolutionary Quartets, a program featuring rarely heard string quartets by French composers of the Classical Era at the Academy of Early Music.
The Cramer Quartet in a HIP Conversation with host SMTD Guest Faculty Artist Eva Lymenstull
Presented by the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and the Academy of Early Music
The Cramer Quartet performs Paris at Dawn: Revolutionary Quartets, a program featuring rarely heard string quartets by French composers of the Classical Era at the Academy of Early Music.
The Cramer Quartet makes it debut at the storied Music Mountain Festival in Falls Village, CT with an innovative Haydn-themed program featuring a new commission from American composer Alexandra du Bois.
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The Cramer Quartet is honored to visit The Pierrot Chamber Music Festival on July 19, 2022 for an Educational Residency at Adelphi University in New York.
Haydn: Dialogues is a multi-season commissioning project that reimagines the traditional string quartet cycle. Over the course of the next ten seasons, concluding in 2032 (Haydn’s 300th birth anniversary), the Cramer Quartet will perform Haydn’s 68 string quartets alongside newly commissioned works by composers of marginalized identities. Each commission is an invitation to respond to an opus from Haydn’s string quartet oeuvre in the composer’s own musical voice, writing specifically for historical instruments.
The first installment of Haydn: Dialogues will premiere in New York City on April 3, 2022 with a new work by American composer Alexandra du Bois performed alongside Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 2 and Op. 20 No. 3 quartets.
With this project, the quartet marries its passion for historical performance with a commitment to rebalancing the string quartet canon by centering the voices of women, non-(cis)males, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ folx and other communities historically underrepresented in classical music.
Tickets: $25 General Admission, Pay As You Wish (Low-Income, BIPOC, Students) —> purchase tickets online now
ABOUT ALEXANDRA DU BOIS
Described as “an intense, luminous American composer” (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times) and “a painter who knows exactly where her picture will be hung,” (Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times), the music of Alexandra du Bois is often propelled by issues of indifference and inequality throughout the United States and the world.
Alexandra du Bois (Ph.D. Stony Brook University; M.M. The Juilliard School; B.M. Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) is a Manhattan and Vermont based composer and violinist whose musical imagery has continually attracted commissions created to honor or mourn world events both historical and contemporary. Her music has been performed in concert halls across five continents—her travels connecting her tangibly to the countries that inform and inspire her work.
Kronos Quartet founder and first violinist, David Harrington, described the music of du Bois in 2003 as having “found a voice when many people were speechless” who writes music that “attempts to be a conscience in a time of oblivion. She dared to counter abuses of moral authority with an internal, personal sound using the string quartet as a witness, a reminder, that music and creativity are part of a continuing web of responsibility.” (Strings Magazine).
Her commissioned works range from orchestral (symphonic, chamber, and string orchestras) to collaborative (photojournalists, choreographers, playwrights, visual artists, video artists, and filmmakers) to chamber music (solo, duo, trio, quartet, and quintet without conductor) to voice (a cappella choir, double and triple choir, voice and piano, and chamber vocal ensemble).
Five Boroughs Music Festival, in partnership with the SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE and FLUSHING TOWN HALL, is proud to present the CRAMER QUARTET in their premiere performances of the Seven Last Words Project.
The Seven Last Words Project is an immersive string quartet performance that interweaves seven new works by composers Jessica Meyer, Colin Jacobsen, Nico Muhly, Tania León, Reena Esmail, Paola Prestini, and Caroline Shaw with Franz Joseph Haydn’s nine-movement masterpiece The Seven Last Words of Christ. Each of the new works is written as a response to a movement of the Haydn, taking the place of sermons that would traditionally be given in a church service setting. The result is a quilting of old and new and a meditation on these seven famed phrases from a contemporary and global viewpoint.
Tickets: $25 General Admission, $15 Student with ID —> purchase tickets online now
Five Boroughs Music Festival, in partnership with the SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE and FLUSHING TOWN HALL, is proud to present the CRAMER QUARTET in their premiere performances of the Seven Last Words Project.
The Seven Last Words Project is an immersive string quartet performance that interweaves seven new works by composers Jessica Meyer, Colin Jacobsen, Nico Muhly, Tania León, Reena Esmail, Paola Prestini, and Caroline Shaw with Franz Joseph Haydn’s nine-movement masterpiece The Seven Last Words of Christ. Each of the new works is written as a response to a movement of the Haydn, taking the place of sermons that would traditionally be given in a church service setting. The result is a quilting of old and new and a meditation on these seven famed phrases from a contemporary and global viewpoint.
At the Sheen Center, audiences will also have the opportunity to experience the performance with accompanying digital projections designed by CAMILLA TASSI, a new and experimental component of the Seven Last Words Project and the start of an ongoing partnership with the Cramer Quartet.
Tickets: $30 General Admission —> purchase tickets online now
The Cramer Quartet will be featured in an extraordinary virtual event, Art in Tune, presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. CQ performs rarely-heard works by Joseph Boulogne, Hyacinthe Jadin, and Caroline Shaw on a set of 18th-Century musical instruments from the MFA’s collection, including a violin by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy; a viola by Gérard J. Deleplanque; and a cello by Andréa Castagneri. These performances are meaningfully placed in three current MFA exhibitions: “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression”, “Cézanne: In and Out of Time,” and “Women Take the Floor.” The event also includes “Performer’s Perspectives” segments in which members of the quartet speak about the music, the artwork, and the instruments, bringing the dialogue and inclusivity of this program to life in their own words.
This event is free and open to the public, and will stream on mfa.org, Facebook and YouTube on January 26, 2021, at 7:00pm EST.
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From mfa.org:
Enjoy the immersive musical and artistic experience of Art in Tune no matter where you are! For the first-ever virtual installment of this MFA tradition, local musicians perform works selected—and in some cases composed—in response to current MFA exhibitions. Performances are broadcast from the exhibitions that inspired them and many highlight instruments from the Museum’s collection.
The virtual event, streaming here and on Facebook and YouTube, features:
The Cramer Quartet, an innovative period ensemble, performing Classical works on some of the MFA’s 18th-century French string instruments in “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” and “Cézanne: In and Out of Time,” as well as a modern work, composed by Caroline Shaw, in “Women Take the Floor.”
Nedelka F. Prescod, vocalist, songwriter, composer, and arranger on faculty at Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music, premiering an original work inspired by “Women Take the Floor.” With accompaniment from Consuelo Candelaria-Barry, playing the MFA’s electric “Storytone” piano.
Queen D. Scott, hip-hop artist and Assistant Chair of the Ensemble department at Berklee College of Music, performing an original work in response to “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation.”
Prescod and Scott performing a cypher of traditional and modern Black music, created in collaboration with Tariq Charles and the teen scholars from the MFA’s Curatorial Study Hall program and inspired by “Black Histories, Black Futures.”
Presented by the Society of Historically Informed Performance, the Cramer Quartet shares performances of works by Mozart, Haydn, and Caroline Shaw.
Ambler Musicivic presents the Cramer Quartet in a “Musicast” episode featuring chamber music performances produced during recent months of quarantine. Works by Bach, Haydn, Matteis, and Telemann. >>Tickets
Ambler Musicivic presents the Cramer Quartet in a “Musicast” episode featuring chamber music performances produced during recent months of quarantine. Works by Bach, Haydn, Matteis, and Telemann.
Ambler Musicivic presents the Cramer Quartet in a “Musicast” episode featuring chamber music performances produced during recent months of quarantine. Works by Bach, Haydn, Matteis, and Telemann. >>Tickets
Award winning composer Jeremiah Bornfield introduces The Cramer Quartet as artists in residence for the inaugural season of “Sound Economics” at The Henry George School in a unique series of virtuosic and entertaining lecture concerts. >> more information
PROGRAM:
Joseph Haydn: “Sun” Quartet Op. 20 No. 2
Mozart: “Spring” Quartet K. 387
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The Cramer Quartet’s season opener, “Springtime in September,” focuses on Haydn’s development and influence on Mozart as a quartet composer. The program features Haydn’s “Sun” Quartet Op. 20 No. 2 as well as Mozart’s “Spring” Quartet K. 387, the first of the “Haydn” Quartets which were dedicated to the elder composer. Written in the span of only ten years, these quartets showcase the radical evolution of the string quartet genre in the late 18th Century.
Jessica Park, violin
Chiara Fasani Stauffer, violin
Keats Dieffenbach, viola
Shirley Hunt, cello
TICKETS:
$20 Advance / $25 Door
$10 off for students
This program follows the evolution of the string quartet through Haydn’s life by featuring works from the composer’s most beloved and influential quartet collections. Quartet in F minor, Op. 20. No. 5 introduces a new dynamic to the quartet by showcasing four independent voices. Nicknamed “The Joke,” Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2 belongs to the opus that the composer himself described as being “written in a completely new and special style.” Three spirited chords open the Quartet in G Major, Op, 76, no. 1, the mature and last complete collection of quartets by Haydn.
Performed by The Cramer Quartet:
Jessica Park- violin, Alana Youssefian- violin, Stephen Goist- viola, Shirley Hunt- cello
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2HRLx75
This event is part of WHAM, Women History Artist Month, at Goddard Riverside The Bernie Wohl Center presenting performing and visual arts by and about women
A Haydn Retrospective follows the evolution of the string quartet through Haydn's life by featuring works from the composer's most beloved and influential quartet collections. Quartet in F minor, Op. 20. No. 5 introduces a new dynamic to the quartet genre by showcasing four independent voices. Nicknamed "The Joke", Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2 belongs to the opus that the composer himself described as being written in "a completely new and special style". Three spirited chords open the Quartet in G Major, Op, 76, No. 1, the mature and final complete collection of quartets by Haydn.
TICKETS: Available for advance purchase online, or at the door (cash only).
$25 General Admission
$15 Students & Seniors
Get tickets now: https://haydnretrospective.brownpapertickets.com/
