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Master Class - Momenta Quartet - Visiting Artist Series

Tue, November 16th, 2021
4:15 pm

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Join talented Williams music students as they receive coaching in chamber music from Momenta Quartet as part of the Williams Visiting Artist Series.

About Momenta
Momenta: the plural of momentum – four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet, whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of all aesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past.  The New York City-based quartet has premiered over 150 works, collaborated with over 200 living composers and in the words of The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, “few American players assume Haydn’s idiom with such ease.” Momenta has performed at such prestigious venues as The Library of Congress, the International Cervantino Festival (Mexico) and the Ostrava Music Days (Czech Republic); has traveled in Southeast Asia and Bolivia; and has performed at numerous universities, among them Cornell and Harvard. Its annual self-produced Momenta Festival has met critical acclaim since its inauguration in 2015. The quartet has received prestigious commission grants from the Koussevitzky, Jerome and Barlow Foundations, and its debut album, Similar Motion, is available on Albany Records.

Photo Credit: John Gurrin

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