Our guiding principle for choosing repertoire has always been pretty simple, we only perform music we like. Asbjørn Nørgaard Born in Denmark and now in their mid-thirties, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola) and Fredrik … [Read more...] about Danish String Quartet: Last Leaf
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Clarice Jensen: For This From That Will Be Filled
A classically-trained cellist, composer and artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Clarice Jensen has been building up an impressive portfolio of collaborative projects over the last 15 years. Either as a solo artist, … [Read more...] about Clarice Jensen: For This From That Will Be Filled
Leyla McCalla: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
Born in New-York, raised in New-Jersey and relocating to New Orleans in 2010, Leyla McCalla is a young Haitian American singer songwriter accompanying herself on the cello, banjo and guitar. Following a remarkable first album (Vari-Colored Songs - … [Read more...] about Leyla McCalla: A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs
Born in New-York, Leyla McCalla is a classically-trained cellist, banjo and guitar player of Haitian descent. After years of freelancing and teaching the cello, the musician’s decision to move to New Orleans, Louisiana in 2010 proved decisive for her … [Read more...] about Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs
Richard Anthony Jay: Written in the Ground
A British sound engineer and record producer, Richard Anthony Jay has also been discreetly ploughing his own furrow as a modern classical composer since 2009. After working in London for more than twenty years in the pop music and advertising … [Read more...] about Richard Anthony Jay: Written in the Ground
Piers Faccini & Vincent Ségal: Songs of Time Lost
Being the descendant of Italian, Irish, Ashkenazi and Gypsy immigrants, I don’t have a big claim to represent British or Irish Folk traditions any more than I do those of West Africa but what I do feel I can stake a claim to is the right to blend … [Read more...] about Piers Faccini & Vincent Ségal: Songs of Time Lost
