Anselm McDonnell Rusted Sugar
Kaija Saariaho Nocturne
Judith Ring Swept Through the Floods
Kalevi Aho Lamento
Leo Chadburn De La Salle (Violins)
Interval
Ian Wilson Primavera from ‘Quattro Stagioni’
Chiyoko Szlavnics Quick Figure (for Marc Sabat)
Chiyoko Szlavnics This is Only Here. This is Only Now.
Judith Ring Swept Through the Floods
Anselm McDonnell Genesis Cradle (world premiere)
A deep dive into the potential of the violin, expanding and enhancing the instrument through microtonality, electronics, and the sound of multiple violins.
Rusted Sugar enters the world of intervals smaller than a semitone, taking traditional tonal chord progressions and setting them into a landscape of quartertones, sweet synthesisers and funk rhythms. Swept Through the Floods and Lamento present powerful emotional journeys. Leo Chadburn’s De La Salle (Violins) occupies a calmer environment: a drifting soundscape, merging four violins into one voice.
Ian Wilson’s Primavera takes creates a texture of agile echoes in a violin quartet and Saariaho’s Nocturne is an intimate tribute to Lutosławski. McDonnell’s new work Genesis Cradle closes the concert, exploring alternative tunings through Just Intonation – intervals that are tuned to fit with the naturally occurring relationships in the harmonic series.
Mira Benjamin violin
Larissa O’Grady violin
Chihiro Ono violin
Amalia Young violin
Joyce Lam 