Three Places for String Quartet (2022)

Program Note:

Three Places for string quartet is made up of three sonic portraits of special places that I frequented over the course of the last two pandemic years. Each of these locations has provided me some sort of refuge and fresh air, helping me navigate this challenging solitary and sedentary time. In each movement, I focus on capturing different aspects of an environment, from distinct sonic markers like the doppler effect of a train horn around a campsite, to more abstract character driven evocations of a visual like that of wine grapes strung between trees in a vineyard field, to more musical depictions of vivid imagery like that of the fluctuating surface of Lake Michigan.

This piece was written for and is dedicated to Quatuor Diotima with admiration and gratitude.

Movements:
I: The Indiana Dunes (0'00 - 5'35)
II: The North Fork (5'40 - 7'50)
III: The Lakeshore (8'00 - 13'00)