• Info

  Friction Quartet performs the quartet music of the imaginative Juri Seo on night two of the Other Minds Festival. Also featured is the Swiss-born, New York-based Sylvie Courvoisier, who combines European chamber music and American avant-jazz in a performance for solo piano. Additionally Mahsa Vahdat performs original song settings of Persian poetry, accompanied by setar player Atabak Elyasi.

• Program

  Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

  
  Mahsa Vahdat, voice with Atabak Elyasi, setar

  
  Juri Seo – Just Intonation Etudes (2023)

  ‍ ‍ Wildflowers (2025),

  Bad Decision (2026)

• Performers

  Friction Quartet

  ‍ ‍Otis Harriel, violin

  Kevin Rogers, violin

  Mitso Floor, viola

  Doug Machiz, cello

  Sylvie Courvoisier, piano

  
  Mahsa Vahdat, voice

  Atabak Elyasi, setar