Premiere: Kreutzer Quartet | Pixelating the River
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the
future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Live Event: Friday 21 May, 5pm.
Watch the concert here.
Tune-in on the 21st May at 5pm for the culmination of the HCP project Pixelating the River, led by Thomas Metcalf, where there will a premiere of his new work alongside Anne Boyd’s String Quartet No. 2, performed by the internationally-renowned Kreutzer Quartet.
Read the programme here:
Biographies:
Composers
Thomas Metcalf (b. 1996) is a composer and DPhil candidate in Music at Oxford University (Worcester College), where he is researching the transformation of graphical spaces into determinately–notated music – focusing on a range of composers in the 20th and 21st centuries. His research has been recognised in the UK and internationally, appearing in peer-reviewed journals as well as diverse conference settings in Europe. Thomas’s works have been performed by a variety of ensembles, such as the ANIMA Collective, BBC Singers, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, GBSR Duo, and Oxford Philharmonic. Thomas's international profile is emerging, with performances in Amsterdam and Mexico in 2021, alongside a generous grant awarded by i-Portunus (Goethe Institut, Brussels) to write a new work for the Lonelinoise Collective, planned for the International Chamber Music Festival Schiermonnikoog in October 2021.
More info available at www.thomasmkmetcalf.com. @tmkmetcalf
Anne Boyd (b. 1946) is one of Australia’s most celebrated composers and educators. Her formal training began at the University of Sydney, where she worked with Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014), who became a highly influential figure both musically, and personally. Having completed her DPhil at the University of York in 1972 on a Commonwealth Scholarship, Boyd took up teaching posts in Sussex and Hong Kong, before returning to Sydney as Professor of Music – the first Australian, and first woman to hold this position. Her music has been performed worldwide, and draws on a synthesis of East–Asian and Western elements with a clear focus on timbre and texture, invoking ideas of meditation, nature, and ritual. Anne's new opera, Olive Pink, will premiere in Australia later in 2021.
Performers
The Kreutzer Quartet
Peter Sheppard Skærved | Violin
Mihailo Trandafilovski | Violin
Clifton Harrison | Viola
Neil Heyde | Cello
The Kreutzer Quartet is acclaimed for its adventurous performances and recordings of works from our time and from the great quartet literature. Their fascination with musical exploration has resulted in cyclic performances and recordings of works ranging from Anton Reicha and David Matthews to Michael Tippett and Roberto Gerhard, on the Naxos, NMC, Metier, Toccata, New Focus, Tadzik, Move, Lorelt, Innova, Parma, Chandos, and Guild labels. Composers who have written, or are writing, for them include Gloria Coates, Robert Saxton, Simon Bainbridge, John McCabe, Laurie Bamon, Elliott Schwartz, Jeremy Dale Roberts, David Horne, Michael Hersch, Gary Carpenter, Sadie Harrison, Evis Sammoutis, David Matthews, Paul Pellay, Rosalind Page, Jeremy Thurlow, Hans Werner Henze, Michael Finnissy, Roger Steptoe, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, Poul Ruders, George Holloway, Peter Dickinson, Jim Aitchison, David Gorton, Edward Cowie, Jörg Widmann, and George Rochberg, to name just a few. The Quartet has held residencies at York University, and Goldsmiths University of London: they have given hundreds of workshops for young composers. The Quartet has a truly international career, playing at venues ranging from the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Bergen Festpilerne, Venice Biennale, the Concertgebouw, to Wilton’s Music Hall, their London ‘home’, where they have given pioneering series of concerts over the past ten years, putting new music into the context of cycles of Beethoven, Mozart, Grieg and Faure.
Find out more about the ‘Pixelating the River’ HCP project here.
