11 West 53 Street
New York City, New York 10019

This ensemble performs music wirtten by contemporary composers. A string quartet program will include the New York premiere of String Quartet No. 1, "X" (1993) by Daniel Bernard Roumain, an innovative Haitian-American composer and violinist; the Western Hemisphere premieres of works by young German composer Jorg Widmann and Irish composer David Flynn; and the World premiere of String Quartet No. 17 by Boguslaw Schaeffer, Poland's senior avant-garde composer.

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