All Spektral Quartet articles
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VideoVideo premiere: The Spektral Quartet presents ‘Thus, the Night’
An exclusive first look at a collaborative art film exploring the heightened qualities of perception and memory as enhanced by the liminal space between daylight and darkness, featuring music by Dutilleux
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Karen Gomyo, Spektral Quartet: Samuel Adams
A fine composer emerges from the shadow of his father
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Spektral Quartet
Bruce Hodges watches the performance from the Constellation venue in Chicago on 21 November 2021, from the comfort of his own armchair
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NewsSpektral Quartet to disband after 2021/22 season
’Over time, we’ve come to realise that our paths are leading us in different directions…this is the best decision for the four of us, and therefore also for Spektral’
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ReviewSpektral Quartet: Experiments in Living
A collection of contrasting music that’s more than just a game of chance
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VideoSpektral Quartet: George Crumb’s Black Angels
The Chicago based quartet performs Crumb’s most iconic work for strings, Black Angels (pt 1, ‘Departure’)
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ReviewSerious Business. Fisher-Lochhead: Hack. Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major op.33 no.2 ‘Joke’. Macklay: Many Many Cadences. Reminick: The Ancestral Mousetrap Spektral Quartet
The Strad Issue: May 2016 Description: The Spektral’s exploration of musical humour is no laughing matter Musicians: Spektral Quartet Composer: Fisher-Lochhead; Haydn; Macklay; Reminick Serious Business, the Chicago-based Spektral Quartet knowingly calls its collection of four ...
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ArticleSpektral Quartet commissions micro-compositions for mobile phones
Chicago’s Spektral Quartet has teamed up with 40 composers in the US on an initiative to replace mobile phone default ringtones and alarms with performances of original contemporary music. The project, called Mobile Miniatures: New Music for Your Phone, was launched through the Kickstarter project funding ...