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Brooklyn Rider String Quartet
Brooklyn Rider, hailed as the future of chamber music (Strings), is a string quartet known for its eclectic repertoire and impressive performances, consistently receiving enthusiastic praise from critics in both classical and rock music spheres. NPR credits them for reinventing the 300-year-old string quartet format into a vibrant creative ensemble of the 21st century, a vision reflected in their programming. With The Four Elements, Brooklyn Rider brings to the concert stage since last season a timely theme: global warming and the destruction of our planet, serving as a call to awaken.
With an almost prophetic sense of the spirit of the times (the zeitgeist), Brooklyn Rider presented in 2020 the project Healing Modes, which, from a holistic perspective, combines Beethoven’s Op. 132 with five commissioned works by Rina Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank, Matana Roberts, and two Pulitzer Prize winners Caroline Shaw and Du Yun. The project explores the theme of healing from multiple historical and cultural viewpoints. In 2020, The New Yorker praised the recording’s concept as meaningful and its performance as compelling.
In 2019, they released two albums featuring leading instrumentalists in their genres: jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman (Sun On Sand) and master Irish fiddler Martin Hayes (The Butterfly).
In the fall of 2018, Brooklyn Rider released the album Dreamers on Sony Music Masterworks, featuring renowned Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera. The recording includes gems from Ibero-American song traditions, as well as pieces set to texts by Octavio Paz, Rubén Darío, and Federico García Lorca—with new arrangements by Jaques Morelenbaum, Gonzalo Grau, Diego Schissi, Guillermo Klein, and ensemble member Colin Jacobsen himself. In 2017/18, Brooklyn Rider released Spontaneous Symbols, an album presenting new music composed by Tyshawn Sorey, Iván Zaytsev, Paula Matthusen, Kyle Sanna, and violinist Colin Jacobsen.
Music from this album was performed live in the show Some of a Thousand Words, a collaboration with choreographer Bryan Brooks and former New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan. The performance is an intimate series of duets and solos, where live music on stage is a dynamic and central creative element. The show was presented at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2016, following two U.S. tours including a week-long residency at New York’s Joyce Theater.
In 2016, the ensemble released an album with many titles for Naïve Records, recorded with Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. It features music by Colin Jacobsen, Caroline Shaw, John Adams, Nico Muhly, Björk, Sting, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, and others. The ensemble toured the U.S. and Europe performing selections from the album with von Otter in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and Zurich’s Opernhaus.
Brooklyn Rider also perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 7, continuing their collaboration with the iconic American composer that began in 2011 and has earned them wide acclaim. An album of Glass’s latest quartets is forthcoming on his label Orange Mountain Music.
In 2015, the ensemble celebrated its 10th anniversary with a tour presenting the powerful multidisciplinary project Brooklyn Rider Almanac, for which they recorded 15 specially commissioned compositions inspired by various artistic muses. The second edition of the project, featuring four new works by Clarice Assad, Gabriel Kahane, Giovanni Sollima, and Tyshawn Sorey, was presented during the 2023/24 season in various concert halls, including Cologne Philharmonic Hall.
In February 2024, Brooklyn Rider toured Australia with concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre, Perth Festival, Ukaria Hall in Adelaide, and Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Morning Herald published the headline: “Probably the coolest quartet in the world.” The 2024/25 season will feature a European tour including concerts at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Tonhalle Zurich, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, Konserthuset Stockholm, and Teatro Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna.
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