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CHAMBER MUSIC VIII: Brooklyn Rider

CHAMBER MUSIC VIII: Brooklyn Rider

Celebrating its 10th anniversary together, Brooklyn Rider is one of today’s most technically accomplished string quartets, attracting legions of fans and drawing critical acclaim from classical, world and rock critics. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” The musicians play in concert halls and clubs, in venues as varied as Joe’s Pub in New York City, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Todai-ji Temple in Japan, the Library of Congress and SxSW. In addition to multiple SMF performances, Brooklyn Rider will be teaching young musicians during SMF’s Acoustic Music Seminar.

Their latest recording Almanac is a multi-disciplinary project for which the quartet commissioned 15 new works, each inspired by a respective artistic muse, by composers ranging from Wilco’s Glenn Kotche of indie rock fame to jazz icon Bill Frisell, to singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan. The quartet charged the composers with an inspired framing device: Each work should take the output of another creative muse of the last 50 years as its inspiration. This concert will feature a selection of works from Almanac.

Johnny Gandelsman, violin
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Eric Jacobsen, cello

Savannah College of Art and Design