Composer
Date of composition
2018
Instrumentation
String quartet
Commissioned by the Cheltenham Music Festival.
Supporters
Mento Mood
Events for this work
PRS for Music concert
Jump Cut Shuffle
(2016)
Tense Spellsphere
(2019)
Samoyeds
(2018)
Mento Mood
(2018)
Venus/Zohreh
(2018)
Tuggemo
(2016)
Simmy Singh – guest violin 1
Patrick Dawkins – violin 2
Richard Jones – viola
Val Welbanks – cello
Sounds like THIS Festival
Fellow Traveler
(2007)
Sivunittinni
(2015)
Mento Mood
(2018)
Samoyeds
(2018)
Venus/Zohreh
(2018)
Tense Spellsphere
(2019)
Another Living Soul
(2015)
Jump Cut Shuffle
(2016)
Tuggemo
(2016)
To kick off their 10th anniversary year, Ligeti Quartet take a snapshot tour of music by some of the most exciting and genre-defying composers working today in the UK and around the world.
Classical Sheffield
Ligeti Quartet perform a programme for International Women’s Day, featuring three pieces composed for them: Singing Strings (commissioned with the support of the RVW Trust), Mento Mood (commissioned by Cheltenham Festival) and Venus/Zohreh (commissioned by Live Music Sculpture &
New Voices: Quartet Premieres
Le Dian
(2018)
Mento Mood
(2018)
A performance including four world premieres, with works by Cheltenham Composer Academy Director Michael Zev Gordon, 2017 Academy alumni Sarah Rimkus and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson (commissioned by Cheltenham Music Festival), and one by 2017 RPS Composition Prize winner Bethan Morgan Williams (supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund). The programme is completed by a new work by young composer Christian Mason, commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet (supported by the Britten Pears Foundation and the City Music Foundation).
Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust