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Emily Cooley || [email protected] || 262.347.7786
Acclaimed NYC String Quartet The Attacca Quartet
plays Adams, Andres, Schumann, Rogerson, and Ippolito
"[A] fun, accessible approach to showcasing some of the greatest minds in modern music"
- Feast of Music
Saturday, December 12, 7PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W. 37th Street || 212.594.6100 || dimennacenter.org
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tickets are $20
Advance Tickets Exclusively Available at kettlecornnewmusic.com
NEW YORK, NY -- Kettle Corn New Music (KCNM) presents its second concert of the 2015-2016
season: the Attacca Quartet at the DiMenna Center (450 W. 37 Street) on Saturday, December 12th.
The program pairs excerpts of John Adams' John's Book of Alleged Dances with the New York premiere
of Kettle Corn Co-Artistic Director Chris Rogerson's String Quartet No. 2. The quartet will also play short
works by Michael Ippolito and Timo Andres, who will join the quartet as a pianist to close the program with
Robert Schumann's masterful Piano Quintet. As always, KCNM will be encouraging listeners to drop the
concert-hall decorum for a more casual experience including time to mingle with the artists, and its
signature snacks: beer, wine, and kettle corn, generously donated and complimentary, courtesy of Kettle
Corn NYC and Brooklyn Brewery. Kettle corn and drinks are served at 7pm, concert starts shortly after;
tickets are $20, available at the door or by pre-order through kettlecornnewmusic.com.
Kettle Corn New Music is quickly becoming a mainstay of the New York City new music community,
developing a listenership based on curatorial flair and youthful artistic passion while working to "make
performances a less finicky affair... far more engagingly than most." (The New York Times) Kettle Corn is
building its reputation around producing contemporary classical performances “with all of the prestige but
none of the pomp” (Feast of Music), programming a combination of established masterworks, living
classics, and American premieres. “Of course, nothing goes together better than popcorn, beer and new
music.” (I Care If You Listen) PROGRAM:
Chris Rogerson (b. 1988) String Quartet No. 2 (New York Premiere)
John Adams (b. 1947) John's Book of Alleged Dances (selections)
Timo Andres (b. 1985) Early to Rise
Michael Ippolito (b. 1985) String Quartet No. 3 "Songlines"
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Piano Quintet
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
First Prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in
2011, top prizewinners and Listeners' Choice Award recipients in the 2011
Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice
Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition
in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of
America's premier young performing ensembles. They were recently named the
Quartet in Residence for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Attacca Quartet is now in its eleventh season, having been formed at the
Juilliard School in 2003. They made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the
Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. They
recently recorded the complete string quartet works of John Adams for Azica
Records, which was released to great acclaim in March 2013. 2014-2015 marks
the fifth season in New York and the second season in Ontario of "The 68," an
ambitious project in which the Attacca Quartet will perform all sixty-eight Haydn
string quartets on a special series they have created and self-produce. They have
been honored with the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial
Chamber Music Award, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical
Association, and the Lotos Prize in the Arts. The Attacca Quartet is represented by
Baker Artists, LLC.
ABOUT KETTLE CORN NEW MUSIC
Kettle Corn New Music is about sharing music with friends. During our college years, we
often played our favorite music for one another, sitting in our dorm rooms, passing
around a big bag of kettle corn. We frequently found these listening sessions to be a
rewarding alternative to more formal, traditional concerts, and we want to bring this
experience to a public forum.
We feel passionately that contemporary classical music of the highest quality can be
shared in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We go to movies to enjoy ourselves,
even when our minds are challenged and stimulated. In the same way, Kettle Corn New
Music presents music drawn from a broad range of styles and aesthetic backgrounds in
an atmosphere where it can be heard as both entertaining and thought-provoking. Kettle
Corn New Music isn’t about a particular style or group of composers. Rather, it’s an
approach to listening that embraces music as both art and entertainment.
Kettle Corn New Music presents
The Attacca Quartet
7pm, Saturday December 12th, 2015
att the DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W. 37th Street || 212.594.6100
$20 Admission
Advance Tickets ONLY available on Kettle Corn New Music's Website
For details and ticket purchase, please visit www.kettlecornnewmusic.com
for credits, photos, bio, press tickets or media enquiries,
please email Emily Cooley at [email protected]
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