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Premiere of the Month: Tyson Gholston Davis’s new work for the Jack Quartet

2025-07-22T15:35:00

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A gestural piece of art inspires a new string quartet

In his new string quartet written for the Jack Quartet, American composer Tyson Gholston Davis was inspired by abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler’s 1992 painting Barometer. The black-and-white painting has ‘immense emotion, reminiscent of the texture of water in tides’, says Davis. His work is mostly based on the painting’s gestures and movement: ‘Its pacing and its ebb and flow are what gets translated.’…

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