QUATUOR BOZZINI
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QUEBEC, SWITZERLAND
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
THURSDAY MAY 16
CARRÉ 150 (Cabaret Guy-Aubert)
10 PM - $36
Clemens Merkel : violon
Alyssa Cheung : violon
Stéphanie Bozzini : alto
Isabelle Bozzini : violoncelle
Jürg Frey : composition
Swiss composer JÜRG FREY writes masterful soundscapes, calm and vast, and Canada’s eminent string quartet, QUATUOR BOZZINI, has worked steadfastly to bring these soundscapes to life. With his sensitive ear for colour, sound, and precision, FREY composes music of great serenity and lyricism, a poetic weightlessness in search of silence in sound. “My music is slow, sometimes static, often delicately shifting between standstill and movement. And yet, after more than an hour, this music has arrived at another place. Standstill, little happens, — it is this atmosphere from which my music emerges and to which it always returns. Sometimes it just stays there. This is my world.” With these words, FREY describes his “String Quartet No. 4,” released in January 2024 on Collection QB and the third quartet he has composed for the QUATUOR, marking over twenty years of collaboration and mutual trust.
