Tickets £21 // Concession £17 // Under 30 £5
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Quatuor Bozzini:
Alissa Cheung violin
Clemens Merkel violin
Stéphanie Bozzini viola
Isabelle Bozzini cello
Jürg Frey (Switzerland, 1953)
String Quartet No. 4 (2018 – 2020) 65’ UK Premiere
Swiss composer Jürg Frey writes masterful, calm, vast soundscapes. With his keen ear for colour, sound and precision, he composes music with a great serenity and lyricism; a poetic weightlessness, searching for the silence in the sound.
The composition of Frey’s string quartets is closely intertwined with his artistic development, each marking a particular point along his artistic biography. Montreal-based and internationally renowned Quatuor Bozzini performs String Quartet No.4 in five movements, written for them in 2020 after more than 20 years of collaboration and ‘quiet friendship with a mutual trust’ with Frey.
The quartet’s sensitive and precise chamber-playing is an optimal partner for Frey’s delicate shifts between ambiguous standstill and subtle energetic movement, without spectacle, without effort; visions of a patient journey through clouds with moments of luminosity.
Produced by hcmf// supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and hcmf// Benefactor Martin Staniforth
Quatuor Bozzini acknowledges financial support from Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
In loving memory of Mervyn Dawe
Photo © Caroline Perron
Getting There
Venue: St Paul's Hall
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