Sax Exploration Night // NTQ, El Noordzo, & Joy on Fire
Tickets are available here. Doors at 7pm, music at 8pm
NEW THREAD QUARTET: NYC-based new music saxophone quartet. EL NOORDZO: Psychedelic afro-carribean surf jazz. JOY ON FIRE: Sax-bass-drums punk-jazz trio that frequents the P237 stage.
More info on our event page.Explorations Vol. 6: Time and Breath
Tickets – $10 online and at the door Online ticket sales have closed. You may purchase a ticket at the door (card or cash).
Program
Neva Derewetzky - small voices (2023), NYC premiere
Michael Seltenreich - Ornamentation 1 (2022), NYC premiere
Erin Rogers - Foliage (2023), world premiere
Victoria Cheah - Walk for a shell (2023), world premiere
NTQ presents our 6th Explorations concert with a program of cutting edge works for saxophone, drawing from meditative breath, temporal flux, sine tone clusters, dissembled instruments, and vocalization.
More info on our event page.Electric Sax Vol. 1: Workings and Re-Workings
Tickets - $10 online and at the door
Program:
Becky Brown - some favored gem (2018)
Ben Luca Robertson - Opheodrys (2017)
Aron Dahl - Fluid Interference - (2022, revised 2023) *world premiere
Ebun Oguntola - Interim (2022) *in-person world premiere
Dennis K. Sullivan, II - As Above, So Below (2018, revised 2023) *world premiere, commissioned
Electric Sax Vol. 1: Workings and Re-Workings is the first offering of our new annual multimedia performance series. This program draws from one of our earliest large-scale electro-acoustic projects: a residency at the University of Virginia in 2018. NTQ is excited to revisit collaborations with composers Becky Brown and Ben Luca Robertson from UVA. In addition, New Thread presents recastings of works by Aron Dahl, Ebun Oguntola, and Dennis Sullivan, and . The program features novel sounds and inspirations: from emotions researcher, Brené Brown, to garden snakes, the deeply personal to the abstract.
More info on our event page.Furiosus by Roberto Scarcella Perino
NTQ joins composer Roberto Scarcella Perino for the North American premiere of his opera FURIOSUS for vocalists, string quartet, sax quartet, piano, and percussion.
FURIOSUS, opera in two acts
Music by Roberto Scarcella Perino
Libretto by Flora Gagliardi
based on the epic poem ‘Orlando Furioso’ by Ludovico Ariosto
Binghamton University Residency
NTQ is headed to Binghamton University for a 2-day residency. We will be working with their composition students on new works for saxophone quartet including workshops, a panel talk on entrepreneurship, and a concert performance of student compositions alongside some works from NTQ's repertoire.
More info on our event page.Explorations Vol. 5: New Thread @ 10 Years
Tickets - $10 online and at the door.
Wow, NTQ @ 10 years?! Time flies by with all that microtonal, theatrical, noise focused, computer generated, light bulb conducted, meditative, and leg muted rep. Join us on Sept 16 as we celebrate with Explorations Vol. 5, featuring works by Martin Bresnick, Malaika Paralkar, Noah Meites, Elori Saxl and Om Srivastava.
New York’s most adventurous saxophone quartet celebrates 10 years of excellence-driven performance with five boundary-defying new works by American composers. Explorations Vol. 5: New Thread @ 10 Years evokes an expansive range of voices and techniques, including driving unison lines, microtonal harmonies, extended sonic palettes, complex rhythmic interplay and poetic inspirations. Following an 18-month hiatus for Covid-19, New Thread returned to the stage with renewed vigor in Spring 2022, debuting 3 exciting new programs and a new Soprano chair.
More info on our event page.Modern Landscapes @ The Drake
39th Annual New England Saxophone Festival
Con Vivo Music presents NTQ
2022 Composers Now Festival Opening Event
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New Thread Quartet is at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.6 months ago
One final preview for our concert SUNDAY: “small voices” by Neva Derewetzky! Derewetzky writes that the saxophone “is an instrument that begs to run… For just a few minutes, I want the instrument to be patient. To take a breath and to wait.”Explorations Vol. 6: Time and BreathSunday, Sept 10 @ 2pmDiMenna Center, NYC-
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