The Momenta Quartet is thrilled to announce the launch of a Hatchfund campaign to raise money for MOMENTA: the debut album! In keeping with our eclectic musical world view, the CD will include one venerable “standard” by Claude Debussy, alongside the world premiere recording of Brazilian avant-garde composer Arthur Kampela’s Uma faca só lâmina (A Knife All Blade, 1998) and the first ever all-string recording of Phili

Momenta is reporting to you from Vermont this week where we are taking part in an intensive Yellow Barn artist residency. We’re working on Debussy Quartet and Ives Second Quartet with esteemed Yellow Barn faculty Roger Tapping and Gil Kalish. The residency will culminate tomorrow night with a performance of both works at Putney’s Next Stage. We’ve been having a great time working on these pieces and

Momenta kicked off the month of March with our very first visit to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Our five-day-long residency had been in careful advance planning for well over a season, and included elements central to our quartet mission: to champion the work of living composers by disseminating their works in performance and recordings; to present stimulating programs drawn from diverse musical infl

Featured Composer Elizabeth Brown: In Conversation with Stephanie Griffin In preparation for the premiere of Elizabeth Brown‘s string quartet “Just Visible in the Distance” (2013) on February 20th at Brooklyn’s Firehouse Space, Momenta’s violist Stephanie Griffin sat down with Elizabeth for an interview. Tickets for the event can be purchased here, and Elizabeth’s famous guacamole

Happy New Year from Momenta! We are back in action after a brief separation which took Stephanie to Brazil (land of Arthur Kampela!) and Emilie and Michael to Boston and Calgary where they performed with our friends in A Far Cry. Our first concerts of 2014 are near home: in and around Princeton, NJ, and two consecutive nights in Manhattan. Being that it’s a new year, we also have two new collaborators joining us for

It has been an exciting and productive year for Momenta! 2013 saw more concerts, more world premieres, and more Momenta than ever before! With the holidays coming up, we decided to share with you our own personal reflections on our favorite Momenta moments from 2013. Enjoy, and see you in the new year! Emilie: To me, the most enjoyable projects sometimes happen unexpectedly during transitional times of the “con

You can dance if you want to… especially if you are in the Momenta Quartet! We’ll be pulling out all the stops at our next concert on Thursday, October 17th at 8pm on Tom Buckner’s Interpretations series at Roulette (Brooklyn, NY). Ours is the second set on a double feature that also includes composer/improviser Gene Coleman and his N_JP Ensemble. The theme behind this concert is particularly close to my heart: Music

An Array of Stunning New Programs for 2014-2015   Music in Motion Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Arthur Kampela: Uma Faca So Lamina Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion American Landscape Scott Johnson: Soliloquy (with the recorded voice of I.F. Stone) Elizabeth Brown: Just Visible in the Distance (2013, composed for Momenta) Ben Johnston: String Quartet No. 4 (Amazing Grace) Augusta Read Thomas: Eagle at S

After spending the summer apart for various musical activities, Momenta is back in action! We started off our 2013-2014 season with three concerts in Pennsylvania, including some brand new repertoire, second chances, and exciting collaborations. Our first concert was on August 28th in the beautiful little town of Kimberton, PA as part of the Kimberton Village Summer Arts Series. You can find information about events