This concert of Kitty Brazelton’s chamber works features ISQ + friends, plus the premiere of Brazelton’s two new string quartets.
Using the vulnerability of the human voice as a connective thread, the Isaura String Quartet weaves together hum, a program of music exploring hidden layers, transformations, and unspoken realities. Featuring works by Nicole Lizée, Laura Steenberge, David Rosenboom, Carmina Escobar and Sean Deyoe, and Alex Temple; featuring Julia Holter, guest artist.
ISQ gives a preview performance of a new work by David Rosenboom, as part of Propositional Music: David Rosenboom Portrait Concert at CalArts Weekend 2019.
ISQ performs a concert of music at UCSB’s Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall by Kitty Brazelton, Nicole Lizée, Caroline Shaw, and Cassia Streb, as well as premieres by UCSB composers.
ISQ performs works by Scott Worthington, Morgan Gerstmar, Matt McBane, Caroline Shaw, and Heena Yoon at the ANA Chapel for the Carlsbad Music Festival. Free admission!
ISQ joins Object as Subject on their July residency at The Satellite, performing music by Ulrich Krieger and OAS.
ISQ joins Petrichor and Octopod on this Equal Sound show. Isaura will perform works by Gloria Coates, John Eagle, and Scott Worthington. Click here for more info & tickets.
Tenor Timur and the Isaura Quartet with percussionists Yuri Inoo and Sidney Hopson perform One Body, a semi-staged one-man chamber cantata composed and conducted by John Kennedy based on the texts of Walt Whitman and St. Augustine.
Tickets available here.
Featuring internationally acclaimed artists Amy Knoles, Ajay Kapur, and Ulrich Krieger, Machines and Strings, Part II is an interdisciplinary project curated for REDCAT by the Isaura String Quartet.
An immersive concert experience, Machines and Strings, Part II brings together CalArtians from the disciplines of Music, Theater, Critical Studies, and Integrated Media, pushing the boundaries of artistic expression and elevating voices that are often underrepresented in a concert hall setting.
Presenting four world premiere performances in the program, Isaura unveils Ulrich Krieger’s completely revised quartet Up-Tight II, and joins the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, directed by Ajay Kapur, for a new work by Amy Knoles featuring custom-built robotic musical instrument Lydia.
Featuring internationally acclaimed artists and faculty Amy Knoles and Ajay Kapur, this interdisciplinary project was curated for CalArts Weekend at California Institute of the Arts by the Isaura String Quartet.
ISQ performs works by Johannes Ockeghem, Caroline Shaw, Francesca Caccini, and Philip Glass at the Moroccan Lounge. We'll also join Midnight Sister in their set.
Isaura String Quartet presents an evening of new music (plus a couple premieres!) at Human Resources. Joined by guest violist Rachel Iba, ISQ will perform works by:
Amy Golden
Ulrich Krieger (new work)
Nicole Lizée
Caroline Shaw
Scott Worthington (new work)
Join us at Human Resources (410 Cottage Home St, Los Angeles, CA 90012) for drinks & music! Tickets are $10 cash or pay what you can - no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
ISQ returns to Emo Nite Day, performing with Demi Lovato, Craig Owens of Chiodos and badXchannels, and a Fall Out Boy sing-a-long as the String String Quartet.
House concert with guests Linnea Soblosky, percussion, and Rachel Iba, viola. Performing works by Caroline Shaw, Astor Piazzolla, Alfred Schnittke, and Goat Rodeo. Email us to RSVP and get the address!
ISQ and Kirsten Ashley Wiest premiere new works for string quartet and voice by Elliott Goldkind, as part of the unSUNG concert series.
ISQ joins Timur and the Dime Museum for a workshop performance of David T. Little's Artaud in the Black Lodge for the REDCAT NOW Festival, produced by Beth Morrison Projects,
Joined by Katisse Buckingham, Chris Wabich, and Rachel Iba, ISQ performs works by Buckingham, Bach, Shaw, and Vrebalov. Performance is at a private home - write us for the address!
ISQ performs as the String String Quartet with Tyson Ritter of the All-American Rejects.
ISQ performs three sets throughout the day at the Carlsbad Music Festival, featuring music by Daniel Corral, Caroline Shaw, John Luther Adams, Nick Norton, and Steve Reich.
ISQ combines their summer series into one event on August 20 at SPACE Arts Center in South Pasadena. They'll perform works by John Luther Adams, Benjamin Britten, Lou Harrison, Veronika Krausas, Andrew McIntosh, Nick Norton, Caroline Shaw, and a premiere by Melinda Rice. Mezzo-soprano Julia Aks will join the quartet as a special guest.
Performing as guest artists at the Academy of Creative Education, Isaura String Quartet presents a journey in thought and history with Steve Reich's Different Trains and Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte.
This concert is part of Dog Star Orchestra 12. More information on the festival can be found here.
We'll be performing John Eagle's rhythm color #3, and The Koan Quartet (Eric Clark, Orin Hildestad, violins, Cassia Streb, viola, Jennifer Bewerse, cello) will present works by Tom Johnson and James Tenney.
Another adventure in microtonal music offered as part this quintessential Los Angeles festival. ISQ will play works by John Luther Adams, Gloria Coates, Kraig Grady, and Andrew McIntosh. Tickets and more information here.
We'll be performing Daniel Corral's Refractions, for processed music box, guitar, and string quartet. Admission is $10 - half price tickets for students, seniors, and past series performers. Free parking is plentiful.
More details here.
ISQ will perform two sets at the Silverlake Lounge as part of Classical Revolution LA. Works by John Luther Adams, Steve Reich, and more.
The Isaura String Quartet's performance time and location are TBD and will be updated here soon!
The 6th annual international celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach will take place on the composer's 331st birthday, as well as the weekend immediately before. Join us!
Bach in the Subways is an international movement founded by cellist Dale Henderson to sow the seeds for future generations of classical music lovers by generating public interest and excitement for the art form. Every year on March 21, Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, musicians around the world celebrate Bach in the Subways Day by offering performances in subways, public spaces, and concerts open to all. The music is given freely as a gift, and as an invitation to further explore classical music.
more information at http://bachinthesubways.com
We'll be joining Emily Wells and Lorna Dune at The Lyric Theatre on February 17. Click here for tickets and more info.
ISQ is excited to join Timur and the Dime Museum for their set at the El Rey Theatre, opening for DeVotchKa. Doors at 8, show at 9. Tickets are available here.
Charles Gaines fills the stage with a nine-piece orchestra and large-scale video projection to create Manifestos 2, with a musical arrangement by director and composer Sean Griffin of Opera Povera. Gaines devised musical translations of four influential speeches using a conceptual rule-based musical notation system. The score is based on: Malcolm X’s last public speech, made in 1965 in Detroit’s Ford Auditorium; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999) by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred; Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo’s Indocumentalismo Manifesto, an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity (2010); and Olympe DeGouges’s 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. Manifestos 2, the second in a series of works by Gaines based on influentialhistorical speeches, was premiered at NY MOMA in 2014.
Tickets available at redcat.org
