The Momenta Quartet has been described by Time Out New York as a “striking new-music quartet,” but the quartet’s range goes far beyond a single form of music. Including over 40 world premieres by both established and up-and-coming composers, the ensemble’s repertoire includes classical standards, contemporary masterworks, and consort music of the Renaissance. Momenta approaches all of this music with equal passion and commitment; a new work by a young composer is given as much attention as a revered mainstay of the classical canon. Some of these emerging composers have received important grants, Rhodes scholarships, invitations to Darmstadt, as well as commercial recording contracts as a direct result of their work with the Quartet.
The Quartet will perform seldom-heard string music by Julian Carrillo, a Mexican composer known largely for having developed a microtonal musical system he called "The Thirteenth Sound." An active violinist as well as a composer, he followed his early forays into microtonality with studies in Europe, returning to Mexico to become a proponent of his new sound theory.
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