Happy New Year! And a heartfelt thank you from all of Momenta to all of you who donated to our year-end campaign…there are still donations coming in, but so far we have almost made it to our goal with $8235 of our $10,000 goal. If anyone would still like to contribute the link is still active. One can help Momenta at any time! The only real “deadline” was for a 2018 tax deduction. Meanwhile,
Happy Holidays to all of you from the Momenta Quartet, and greetings from British Columbia, California, Connecticut and New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. (You can try to guess which one of us is where…) Thank you so much to all of you who have contributed to our Momenta Fifteenth Anniversary Fundraising Drive so far. With $5785 raised to date, we’ve got quite a ways to go to
It’s almost 2019, which will mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Momenta Quartet! In typical violist fashion, I am the last founding member standing, and I am full of memories of all the wonderful experiences I’ve had in the past fourteen years, and of all the struggles along the way. Of course, it’s not easy to keep a quartet going for this long, and we could not have done it without your support! We have exciting
The Momenta Quartet will end with a bang tomorrow night with Michael’s “The Power of Four”: Friday, October 19, 7pm at Tenri:“The Power of Four,” curated by Michael Haas with guest string quartet, the Argus Quartet Eric Nathan: Four to OneBela Bartók: String Quartet no. 4George Enescu: Octet for Strings Venue Address:Tenri Cultural Institute43 West 13th StreetNew Y
Announcing Momenta Festival IV October 13, 15, 17, and 19 in NYC Four concerts each curated by a different quartet member Free admission and custom beers by Sam Burlingame of BrewHeister “[the Momenta Festival] has become one of the most amazingly eclectic, never mind herculean feats attempted by any chamber ensemble in this city….” – New York Music Daily October 13-19: Momenta Quartet
The Lost String Quartet A theatrical string quartet for children “really, really smart, imaginative, and beautifully conceived and executed” – Steve Smith “a new classic of classical music for children” – Alan Young, New York Music Daily The Lost String Quartet is an original concert-length theatrical string quartet piece for children and playful adults of all ages, based on the children’s book by N. M. Bodeck
The Momenta Quartet and the League ISCM present: “Music by Improvisers” TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 8:30PM The Stone at The New School Glass Box Theater 55 W. 13th Street, NY, NY 10011 Admission: $20, tickets available at the door With special guest vocalist M. Lamar Program: Stephanie Griffin: “BIO Rhythms II” for string quintet (2018) WORLD PREMIERE with James Ilgenfritz, double bass Anders Nilsson: “Utterly” for str
Dear friends, Happy Spring time! It’s been an exceptionally busy and productive Spring season so far, but almost all of Momenta’s events have been out of town since March! We’ve been in Memphis doing outreach concerts and performing with the IRIS Orchestra, and recently returned from our debut concert for the Chamber Music Society of Louisville in Kentucky and an 8-day residency at Cornell University wher
