Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet
California-based pianist and Grammy Award winner Gloria Cheng has a reputation for not only technically and artistically polished performances, but also for programming illuminating concerts which...
View ArticleFireside with Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet
This week, (Le) Poisson Rouge offers listeners an ultra-intimate concert featuring contemporary piano queen Gloria Cheng, and the Calder Quartet performing works byMessiaen, Saariaho, Stravinsky and...
View ArticleGloria Cheng meets the Calder Quartet
Each Thursdayat 7 pm this winter, stream Q2 Music for weekly Webcasts of new-music shows as recorded live at premiere venues around New York City. This week: pianist Gloria Cheng and the Calder...
View ArticleListen Now: Dan Deacon, NOW Ensemble and Calder Quartet
On Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30 pm ET, Q2 Music and New Sounds Live present a live audio webcast of composer and indie heavyweight Dan Deacon from Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival. Following...
View ArticleGloria Cheng and Calder Quartet Bring Messiaen and Saariaho to Light
On their new CD, "The Edge of Light," the wildly adventurous West Coast keyboard virtuoso Gloria Cheng and the even wilder Calder Quartet help to contextualize Olivier Messiaen's titanic legacy by...
View ArticleSuper Collider
On "A Walking Fire," their first recording for Universal Music’s Mercury Classics label, Brooklyn Rider performs Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2 along with new works by Ljova and Brooklyn Rider’s...
View ArticleBonus Track: "Sabina" from The Companion Guide to Rome by Andrew Norman
In 2007, composer and newly minted Rome Prize-recipient Andrew Norman found himself among 15 artists and 15 scholars heading to the Eternal City for a period of several months of reflection and...
View ArticleThomas Adès Explores Time Real and Imagined with the Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès’s newest album, "The Twenty-Fifth Hour" is a fascinating exploration of time both real and envisioned. It opens with the Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet joined by the composer on his Piano...
View ArticleEnsemble Signal's Delightfully Manic Steve Reich
The two fast movements of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet surge forward on a relentless eighth note pulse. Two interlocking piano lines, fitting together like a set of steel teeth, launch the piece and...
View ArticleApp Download: Leila Adu's 'Alyssum' with Bridget Kibbey and Calder Quartet
Stay surprised and inspired wherever you go! Every Thursday, Q2 Music shares an exclusive live track we select and record for you that's available to download to your mobile device. From New York...
View ArticleListen: Roomful of Teeth and ICE Premiere Caroline Shaw's "This might also be...
Vocal octet Roomful of Teeth and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) premiered Caroline Shaw's This might also be a form of dreaming on June 11 at the Ojai Music Festival. The "Mystic Hour"...
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