• Info

  All the best stories come from within

  This program is built on music born from personal experience, centered around Bedřich Smetana's seminal String Quartet No. 1 — an unabashedly autobiographical work that puts his Czech heritage front and center. In a similar spirit, Christos Hatzis's String Quartet No. 1, "Awakening", weaves Inuit throat singing and locomotive engines into a singular, deeply personal and enigmatic musical story. Answering that same call to write from the self, Mitso Floor is composing new material - developed and workshopped by Friction Quartet for its world premiere on this very program.

  - Curated by Mitso Floor

• Program

  Program

  Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"

  I. Allegro vivo appassionato

  II. Allegro moderato à la Polka

  III. Largo sostenuto

  IV. Vivace

  Christos Hatzis - String Quartet No. 1 "The Awakening"

  Mitso Floor/Friction Quartet - New Work

• Performers

  Friction Quartet

  Otis Harriel, violin

  Kevin Rogers, violin

  Mitso Floor, viola

  Doug Machiz, cello