String Quartet Composition Recital
Department Recital
Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.
Program
Pieces performed by the Friction Quartet
Otis Harriel, violin
Kevin Rogers, violin
Mitso Floor, viola
Doug Machiz, cello
Isaiah Diaz-Lopez: Paris Evening
Matt Holloway: Images of the Doomsday Clock
I. Ninety Seconds to Midnight
II. The Old Dictator’s Folly
III. An Ode to Nationalist Grifters
IV. Extinction for a Quick Buck
V. Ninety Seconds to Midnight
Brayden Meng: The Wayfarer
Max Marcus: String Quartet
I. Sketch
Acerylio Rocendron Chen: Lavender Amoung Thorns
I. Introduction
II. Touch of Comparison
III. Acceptatio Regnat in Dies Irae
IV. Pride in Creating God
V. Marriage to Synthesis
Cooper Grosscup: Passacaglia
Julian Sommer, cello
- Intermission -
Wei Zhao: Shape
Xingyue Song: Come From Away
Tyler Kinnaman: String Quartet No. 1
I. Whimsical
Sam Mason: Sonatine
Grant J. Steinweg: Romance
Daniel Zarb-Cousin: Quartet No. 2 "Homecoming"
Artists
Composition
David Conte
About SFCM’s Composition Department
Prize-winning faculty develop and refine the skills of the next generation of great composers. The composition department both honors tradition and encourages innovation. Our four versatile faculty members closely mentor students while maintaining high-profile composing careers. We strongly emphasize interdepartmental collaboration, matching composers with performers, as well as offer frequent concerts and readings of student works. Every year, SFCM hosts the Highsmith Competition, an internal composition contest that grants the winner a performance of the submitted work by the Conservatory Orchestra. You'll be able to take advantage of the extraordinarily rich musical life of San Francisco, home to some of the most groundbreaking musical activity of the past half-century.
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