TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET

TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET

For new engagements, please contact
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For new engagements, please contact
Fox Performances

 

WATCH

Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut – Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Turtle Island Quartet – Strings Session
Turtle Island Quartet w/ Cyrus Chestnut – Ruby My Dear
Turtle Island Quartet – Dewey Square

LISTEN

Turtle Island Quartet
Have You Ever Been (Hendrix)
1983…A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Hendrix)
Turtle Island Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut

BIRD’S EYE VIEW: THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE PARKER

In this high flying program, the two-time GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet, pays homage to the incandescent visionary brilliance of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. The genius of his improvisations almost single handedly catapulted jazz from pop style into art music, indelibly altering the musical landscape of America.

Iconic Charlie Parker classics such as A Night in Tunisia, and Dewey Square are juxtaposed with original responses by quartet members, and intertwined with other thematic pieces from the bebop era and beyond such as Sonny Rollins’ Airegin, Miles Ahead by Gil Evans/Miles Davis and Subconscious-Lee by Lee Konitz. GRAMMY®-nominated composer David Balakrishnan contributes his newly commissioned work, Aeroelasticity: Harmonies Of Impermanence.*

Turtle Island draws its primary focus and musical identity from the individual creative voices of the ensemble who are at home in folk, pop and jazz. It continues to recalibrate the foundational parameters of the traditional string quartet form, in a sense coming from the other direction.

*Aeroelasticity: Harmonies Of Impermanence is made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

BIRD’S EYE VIEW: THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE PARKER

In this high flying program, the two-time GRAMMY® winning Turtle Island Quartet, pays homage to the incandescent visionary brilliance of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. The genius of his improvisations almost single handedly catapulted jazz from pop style into art music, indelibly altering the musical landscape of America.

Iconic Charlie Parker classics such as A Night in Tunisia, and Dewey Square are juxtaposed with original responses by quartet members, and intertwined with other thematic pieces from the bebop era and beyond such as Sonny Rollins’ Airegin, Miles Ahead by Gil Evans/Miles Davis and Subconscious-Lee by Lee Konitz. GRAMMY®-nominated composer David Balakrishnan contributes his newly commissioned work, Aeroelasticity: Harmonies Of Impermanence.*

Turtle Island draws its primary focus and musical identity from the individual creative voices of the ensemble who are at home in folk, pop and jazz. It continues to recalibrate the foundational parameters of the traditional string quartet form, in a sense coming from the other direction.

*Aeroelasticity: Harmonies Of Impermanence is made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.