Shadow Rings (2009)

PERFORMANCE HISTORY


Shadow Rings was commissioned by Antares and was premiered at Duke University in Durham, NC in 2010.


Antares has also played the piece at the Des Moines Art Center and the Library of Congress.


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Shadow Rings was a co-winner in Wild Rumpus’s Call for Scores.  The San Francisco-based group performed the piece in 2011.


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The Buffalo Chamber Players performed the piece in 2012.

                         

  1. • clarinet/bass clarinet

  2. • violin

  3. • cello

  4. • piano


Duration: 8.5 minutes

PROGRAM NOTE


Shadow Rings was written for Antares and is dedicated to its members:

Eric Huebner, Jesse Mills, Garrick Zoeter and Rebecca Patterson.



Taking advantage of the acoustical properties of the instruments, of strings or a column of air, the piece is meant to make the quartet ring in a new way, to have each player reinforce the other players’ sounds, adding color, enhancing overtones, and strengthening the musical message.



“Shadow Rings was full of inventive ideas and sonic wonders; this is an imaginative young composer from whom we hope to hear more.”



--Stephen Brookes

The Washington Post

March 14, 2011