Pulitzer Prizes have gone to Kevin Puts (2012) and Aaron J. Kernis (1998) and MITV has commissioned works from them both! Kevin’s In At The Eye (2016) is a set six love songs set to William Butler Yeats poetry. Aaron’s single movement for string quartet is a beautiful elegy to loss. We end with a piano quartet, the genre that Mozart “invented” with his Piano Quartet in G minor.
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C Major, op 20, no 2
The Isidore Quartet
Adrian Steele, violin
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, viola
Joshua McClendon, cello
Kevin Puts (b.1972)
In At the Eye for baritone, violin, viola, flute and piano
Adrian Steele, violin
Joshua McClendon, cello
Viviana Guzman, flute
Eric Zivian, piano
Daniel Belcher, baritone
Aaron J. Kernis (b. 1960)
For Those We Have Lost
David Bowlin, violin
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, viola
Tanya Tomkins, cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478
Owen Dalby, violin
Maiya Papach, viola
Tanya Tomkins, cello
Eric Zivian, piano