{"id":2887,"date":"2019-07-31T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:07:24","slug":"momenta-quartet-returns-to-bates-as-artist-in-residence-in-music-for-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/music\/2019\/07\/31\/momenta-quartet-returns-to-bates-as-artist-in-residence-in-music-for-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Momenta Quartet returns to Bates as Artist-in-Residence in Music for 2019-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Momenta Quartet will join Bates’ Department of Music as Artist-in-Residence for the 2019-2020 academic year. The quartet has performed for, and worked with, our students numerous times over the years, and we are delighted that they have agreed to step into this role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Momenta Quartet<\/strong>
Emilie-Anne Gendron and Alex Shiozaki, violins
Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Momenta:<\/em> the plural of momentum \u2013 four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet, whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of all aesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past. The New York City-based quartet has premiered over 150 works, collaborated with over 200 living composers and was praised by The New York Times for its \u201cdiligence, curiosity and excellence.\u201d In the words of The New Yorker\u2019s Alex Ross, \u201cfew American players assume Haydn\u2019s idiom with such ease.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quartet came into being in November 2004, when composer Matthew Greenbaum invited violist Stephanie Griffin to perform Mario Davidovsky\u2019s String Trio for events celebrating Judaism and Culture at New York\u2019s Symphony Space and Temple University in Philadelphia. A residency through the composition department at Temple University ensued, and the rehearsals and performances were so satisfying that the players decided to form a quartet. Through this residency, Momenta gave two annual concerts highlighting the talents of Temple University student composers alongside 20th-century masterworks and works from the classical canon, and repeated the programs at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. From the outset, Momenta treated all music equally, devoting as much time, care and commitment to the student works as to the imposing musical monuments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word of Momenta\u2019s passionate advocacy for emerging composers spread quickly. Composers started inviting Momenta for similar concerts and residencies at other academic institutions, among them Harvard, Brown, Cornell and Columbia Universities; the Boston and Cincinnati Conservatories; and the Eastman School of Music. Momenta has received two Koussevitzky Foundation commission grants: for Malaysian composer Kee Yong Chong in 2009 and for Bolivian composer Agust\u00edn Fern\u00e1ndez in 2011; a Barlow Foundation commission for Claude Baker in 2016; a Jerome Foundation grant to commission Eric Nathan in 2013, and a Chamber Music America commission for Alvin Singleton, whose new work will be featured prominently in Momenta\u2019s 2019-20 season. Deeply committed to the musical avant-garde of the developing world, Momenta has premiered and championed the works of Tony Prabowo (Indonesia), Cergio Prudencio (Bolivia) and Hana Ajiashvili (Georgia). Upcoming adventures include a project to perform and record all thirteen string quartets by Mexican microtonal maverick Juli\u00e1n Carrillo (1875-1965) over the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Momenta has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian\u2019s Freer Gallery, Rubin Museum, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Cincinnati, Louisville Chamber Music Society, Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic, and at the internationally renowned Cervantino Festival in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Momenta\u2019s recent and upcoming highlights include a residency at The Laredo Institute in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and closer to home: residencies at Bates and Williams Colleges; collaborations with the Cornell University gamelan ensemble and student composers at Brown University; concerts presented by Bard College, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; and another installment of their annual member-curated Momenta Festival in NYC. Momenta also continues its collaboration with Mexican actor\/director Fernando Villa Proal on \u201cThe Lost String Quartet,\u201d a theatrical string quartet for children with an original score by Stephanie Griffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Momenta has recorded for Centaur Records, Furious Artisans, PARMA, New World Records, and Albany Records; and has been broadcast on WQXR, Q2 Music, Austria\u2019s Oe1, and Vermont Public Radio. The quartet\u2019s debut album, \u201cSimilar Motion,\u201d is available on Albany Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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