AMERNET STRING QUARTET

• Monroe Golden: Twine 'Mid the Ringlets (excerpt)

"While Alabama might be associated with country and jazz, the Amernet String Quartet has created an album of quartets that might pull you towards thinking otherwise. Containing a wealth of work by Alabama composers born in the last 70 years, this album gives a compelling argument for a connection between the state and the classical music art form. From Brian Moon’s quirky, vivid Quartet 2 to Lawren Brianna Ware’s meditative, evocative Ascension, this album is a kaleidoscope of string quartet writing and colors, expertly played by the Amernet Quartet."

American Record Guide [September/October 2021]

"What’s surprising here is how few of the works sound clichéd; a good number of composers have their “own” voice... For anyone looking for new string quartet repertoire, this album is a gold mine."

Gil French, Fanfare [May/June 2021]

"The works are uniformly well-made... The Amernet String Quartet plays all the music very well indeed, making the strongest possible case for all these works. And most of the pieces show structural solidity and considerable mastery of the string-quartet form... The CDs may be most useful...for demonstrating to potential conservatory students that Alabama has a vibrant contemporary-classical-music life."

Mark J. Estren, InfoDad [March 2021]

ALABAMA STRING QUARTETS
Alabama, although better known for the jazz of Lionel Hampton or the country music of Hank Williams, has a vibrant culture of classical music. Professional training in classical music is offered by numerous institutions of higher learning. There are several major orchestras in the state, including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra whose history stretches back to 1921, and also opera companies, chamber ensembles and dedicated presenters, such as the Birmingham Art Music Alliance.

Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is an autonomous non-profit organization with the two-fold mission of promoting music by Alabama composers and presenting concerts of recently created art music to communities in Birmingham and beyond. Members include local composers, professional performers, students and enthusiasts who wish to preserve and maintain the long tradition of music as a living art form. The Birmingham Art Music Alliance is thrilled to present the extraordinary Amernet String Quartet in Alabama String Quartets, spotlighting chamber music’s most “classical” of sub-genres and its expression in the hands of living composers from the Deep South.

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The Amernet String Quartet has garnered recognition as one of today’s most highly regarded chamber ensembles. Consisting of violinists Misha Vitenson and Franz Felkl, violist Michael Klotz and cellist Jason Calloway, they have performed across the Americas and in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, appearing at prominent venues and international festivals. Amernet has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent artists and ensembles, including the Tokyo String Quartet and Ying Quartet, as quartet soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Alan Gilbert, and with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Roberto Diaz, Gary Hoffman, Ida Kavafian, Anthony McGill, Sherrill Milnes and Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet. Early in their career, the ensemble won the Gold Medal at the Tokyo International Music Competition and First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. The Amernet Quartet, always committed to the music of our time, has commissioned works from today’s leading composers, including Anthony Brandt, Guillermo Carbo, John Corigliano, Orlando Garcia, John Harbison, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Pierre Jalbert, Bernard Rands, Morton Subotnick, Dmitri Tymoczko, Chinary Ung and Judith Lang Zaimont – with all working closely in performance and recording. Currently Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University in Miami, the quartet has previously enjoyed appointments with Northern Kentucky University and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and as the Ernst Stiefel Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Center for the Arts. Their current season includes tours throughout Europe and Latin America, return engagements throughout the United States and Israel, and premieres of several new works.
[ www.amernetquartet.com ]

  CD 1

CYNTHIA MILLER (b.1950)
BIRD QUARTET (2016)
I. Herons in Winter
II. Singing in the Branches
III. The Hawk

BRIAN MOON (b.1975)
STRING QUARTET NO.2 (2007)

MONROE GOLDEN (b.1959)
TWINE ‘MID THE RINGLETS (2012)

LAWREN BRIANNA WARE (b.1994)
ASCENSION FOR STRING QUARTET (2016)

MATTHEW SCOTT PHILLIPS (b.1977)
STRING QUARTET NO.4 (2017)
I. Over Coming Tragedy

ANDREW RAFFO DEWAR (b.1975)
STRING QUARTET (2003)

TOM REINER (b.1969)
TEMPUS FUGIT (2014)

MARK LACKEY (b.1966)
QUARTET FOR STRINGS (2016)
I. Dance
II. Turn
III. Rock


CD 2

MICHAEL COLEMAN (b.1955)
STRING QUARTET NO.1 (1991)

HOLLAND HOPSON (b.1971)
FOLLOWS FROM HUMMINGBIRD (2016)

TOM REINER (b.1969)
KETIGA (2016)
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Moderato

BRIAN MOON (b.1975)
LINES AND CURVES (2001)

MONROE GOLDEN (b.1959)
STRING QUARTET (1989)

CHRIS STEELE (b.1980)
IMAGERY: THOMAS HARDY ON DEATH (2017)
I. Forever Graying
II. As Though No Grave Were Under
III. Slumbering Peacefully

JOEL SCOTT DAVIS (b.1982)
STRING QUARTET NO.1 “VESPERS” (2016)
I. Awakenings–Proclamations
II. Antiphons–Benedictions
III. Jubilations
 



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