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“ ... the gift of making whatever they’re playing seem the most important piece in the world,”

- The Gramophone

Three World Premiere Recordings Released in 2009

2009 | Shadowed Narrative (will be released at the end of the year)

1. Label: Innova Recordings
   

  Works will include: Shadowed Narrative (1978) by Roger Reynolds

                                  TASHI Quartet (1978) by Peter Lieberson

   Made possible by the Aaron Copland Recording grant and a private donation.

2009 | Digital Loom

1. Label: MSR Classics
   

  Works include: Red River (2007)* by Mason Bates

   *Commissioned for Antares by the Greenwich Music Festival, CT.

2006 | Time After Time

  Label: Bridge Records

1. Works include: Marches by Fred Lerdahl
   

2004 | Eclipse

1. Label: Innova Recordings
   

2. Works include:    Eclipse (1995) by George Tsontakis
   

3.                             Breakdown Tango (2000)* by John Mackey     
   

4.                             Buzz (2001) by James Matheson
   

5.                             SIMAKU (1997)* by Kevin Puts
   

6.                             Antares (2003)* by Carter Pann
   

7.                             dodecaphunphrolic (1997)* by Stefan Freund.
   

   Made possible by the Aaron Copland Recording grant and a private donation.

   *Commissioned for Antares.

•  Dreams of Orpheus by Matthew Tommasini

   Commissioned for Antares by Music in the Loft

   Premiered in Chicago, November 22, 2008

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• Colloquial Stanzas by Joel Puckett

1. Premiered in Westport CT, August 15, 2008
   

• Canticle of Creation by Cal Stewart Kellogg

   Premiered in St. Bonaventure, NY, February 26, 2008

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3. • Anatomy of Melancholy by James Matheson
   

4. Premiered in Westport, CT, February 8, 2008
   

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1. •Red River by Mason Bates
   

2. Premiered at the Greenwich Music Festival, CT June 3, 2008
   

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1. •Antares by Carter Pann
   

2. Premiered at the Kennedy Center, 2004
   

3. Commissioned by a private donate through Concert Artists Guild
   

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1. •Breakdown Tango by John Mackey
   

2. Premiered at the Joyce Theater in collaborations with Parson Dance Company.
   

3. Choreographer, Robert Battle
   

4. 2001
   

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Washington Post   |  May 17,  2008 

by Stephen Brooks

                “...this was an utterly commanding performance, technically superb

                 and radiant with otherworldly majesty.  All played with exceptional insight”

Cincinnati Post   |  Dec 7,  2006 

by May Ellyn Hutton

                “It was not only the gripping program that made this one of the chamber

                music events of the year. The prize-winning quartet inhabited the music in

                an extraordinary way, achieving their expressive ends through superb

                individual and corporate means and the most scrupulous ensemble precision.”

The Gramophone   |  July,  2005 

by Ken Smith

               “....fearlessly irrepressible energy”

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