Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

New Thread Quartet presents Explorations Vol. 2: New Works for Saxophone

Thursday, April 20, 8:00pm

Dimenna center for Classical Music
450 West 37^th Street
New York, NY 10018

New Thread Quartet presents works by Max Grafe, Taylor Brook, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Adam Mirza.

New York’s most adventurous saxophone quartet returns for its second annual series exploring new music for saxophones, pushing the ensemble beyond its traditional boundaries. Explorations Vol. 2 features hyper-modern works by four next-generation compositional voices, with a common theme of “Innovation-through-Notation.” Karst by Max Grafe charts the dramatic and musical implications of an initial explosive event – a cataclysmic or traumatic occurrence – followed by an exploration of sharply contrasting, but interrelated musical characters. A shout to the Belgian saxophone player and bandleader, Fud Candrix, Taylor Brook’s Flux Candrix toys with musical quotation and stylistic allusion. Adam Mirza explores dynamic aspects of musical performance in a new work titled In the House of the Living and the Dead, while Chris Fisher-Lochhead showcases the versatility and power of the modern saxophone in Blissing Out – a work notated entirely in tablature. Works by Grafe, Brook and Mirza are newly commissioned world premieres. This concert is presented by New Thread Quartet and is open to the public. Tickets are $10.

For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Zach Herchen – contact@newthreadquartet.com / 781-718-7100

New Thread Quartet is a presenting partner of Composers Now.

Website: http://www.newthreadquartet.com/

Twitter: @newthreadqtet Facebook: New Thread Quartet

NTQ is excited to announce that we are will be guest artists at the 2017 NASA Region 8 Conference hosted by Jonathan Amon at Bridgewater State University! We’re pleased to join guest artists Ken Radnofsky and Ron Blake for the two-day conference. NTQ will present a masterclass on chamber music and perform a recital of modern repertoire for saxophone quartet. Schedule TBA.

Friday, March 10, 2017 – Saturday, March 11, 2017
Bridgewater State University
131 Summer St, Bridgewater, MA

If you are interested in participating in our masterclass, please follow the links below.

North American Saxophone Alliance, Region 8 conference page – registration, masterclass application, general info

Bridgewater State University, Region 8 Conference page – info, schedule, travel

NTQ is excited to announce that we are will be guest artists at the 2017 NASA Region 8 Conference hosted by Jonathan Amon at Bridgewater State University! We’re pleased to join guest artists Ken Radnofsky and Ron Blake for the two-day conference. NTQ will present a masterclass on chamber music and perform a recital of modern repertoire for saxophone quartet. Schedule TBA.

Friday, March 10, 2017 – Saturday, March 11, 2017
Bridgewater State University
131 Summer St, Bridgewater, MA

If you are interested in participating in our masterclass, please follow the links below.

North American Saxophone Alliance, Region 8 conference page – registration, masterclass application, general info

Bridgewater State University, Region 8 Conference page – info, schedule, travel

NTQ returns to Montclair State University for a masterclass with Stacy Wilson’s saxophone studio. We will give a performance of commissioned works and coach several students.

Sunday, February 5, 2017
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Montclair State University, John J. Cali School of Music
1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJ

More information HERE

HYPERCUBE brings its Infinite Dimensions program to Atlantic Canada for performances in March.

Monday, March 27, 2017, 8pm
Garrick Theatre
20 Church St #16
Bonavista, NF A0C 1B0
Canada

More information: http://www.mun.ca/music/events.php?day=1490542200

HYPERCUBE brings its Infinite Dimensions program to Atlantic Canada for performances in March.

Sunday, March 26, 2017, 8pm
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Burtons Pond Rd.
St. John’s, NL A1B
Canada

More information: http://www.mun.ca/music/events.php?day=1490542200

HYPERCUBE performs at Dreamland in Louisville, KY.

Details coming soon!

More information: http://dreamlandislouisville.org/

HYPERCUBE returns to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for a 3-day composition residency:

Details coming soon!

More information: http://ccm.uc.edu/boxoffice/calendar.html