Contemporary Quartets

Creating a new way to produce contemporary String Quartets

Vox Novus is looking for composers who are interested in supporting and producing a performance and LIVE online video recording of their string quartets. Selected composers will have their string quartet presented on a special Composer’s Voice online concert and broadcasted LIVE online to streaming platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. All performances will be archived on their related platforms.

Composers will be featured LIVE online during the concert to present themselves and describe their works to the audience. A host will introduce the musicians and the composers.

In order to present this online publication of their works, composers will be asked to sign and agree to a consent form for online publication and promotion. Agreements will be non-exclusive for all parties.

The rehearsals and performance will be with the Argus String Quartet and take place in January of 2024.

Composers will receive 2 online rehearsals (30 minutes each) and performance of your string quartet broadcasted live online to streaming platforms YouTube and Facebook.

Composers will also receive an audio and video copy of their work with non-exclusive rights to do with what they wish. All artists and producers are expected to be credited in publications.

The deadline to submit scores is June 1st 2023.

Composers need to submit their string quartets online to New Music Engine at the following link:  www.newmusicengine.org

There is a $30 submission fee to be paid to Vox Novus at the following link: www.VoxNovus.com/composersvoice/featuring/contemporaryquartets/

This is a production project. Selected composers will have a $1200 production fee to cover musician fees and broadcasting costs.

Guidelines:

Works need to be a maximum of 15 minutes in length.
Scores need to be submitted as a PDF file including all parts.
An Audio Realization sound file of the work as MP3 is required.
Works need to be submitted by June 1st, 2023.
150 word biography.
150 word program notes.
Selected composers are required to participate for the online performance with an interview and presentation of their piece.
Selected composers will also be asked to sign a consent form for public online performance.
Composers selected for digital publication will be required to sign a publication agreement.
Composers selected will be asked to contribute $1,200 towards production costs.
Work written for string quartet (Violin 1, Violin 2. Viola, and Cello)
Work needs to be less than 15 minutes in length.
There is a submission fee of $30
Work must be submitted to newmusicengine.org Composers will be asked to register to New Music Engine and provide the following:

biography
Program Notes
Score as a PDF file
All 4 instrument parts as PDF file
Audio Realization of the work uploaded as MP3 file
$30 submission fee (Merchant Transaction ID from your PayPal receipt to Vox Novus)

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Submit online with New Music Engine at the following:
https://www.newmusicengine.org/categories/Contemporary-Quartets-2023/index.html

Contemporary Quartets Project is a Vox Novus project.

Questions can be addressed to Robert Voisey to the following email: support@VoxNovus.com

Argus Quartet

The Argus Quartet is dedicated to encouraging the joys of human connection, community, and discovery by bringing a wide-ranging repertoire to life through bold and meaningful programming and a vibrant commitment to collaboration and education, winning recognition as a “vivacious foursome … [that] plays canonical standards with authority and verve and approaches modern music with care and assurance” (The New Yorker). Praised for playing with “supreme melodic control and total authority” and “decided dramatic impact” (Calgary Herald), the Quartet has quickly emerged as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile ensembles.

Based in New York City, the Quartet was founded in Los Angeles in 2013, where its members shared many meals at their favorite taco truck on Argus Drive.

Performances from Argus String Quartet with composers of Contemporary Quartets project can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZymEBwXMxjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829x9KbZmV8
Composer’s Voice features Argus Quartet presenting Dustin Schulze and Heather Niemi Savage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDC7ep2m6Jk

Interview with Clara Kim and Giancarlo Latta from Argus Quartet
https://youtu.be/GChPH4KU8x0

Past Contemporary Quartets Projects

Argus Quartet

Based in New York City, the Quartet was founded in Los Angeles in 2013, where its members shared many meals at their favorite taco truck on Argus Drive.

Argus performing works from Contemporary Quartets Project February 4, 2022:
https://youtu.be/T-nWb7LP8m8

Lehner String Quartet

The Lehner String Quartet is composed of four talented musicians who are members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (Washington National Opera): Violinists Natasha Bogachek and Zino Bogachek, violist Philippe Chao, and cellist Igor Zubkovsky. Each are accomplished performers in their own right, they have a history of performing together to bring music to audiences around the world. Virtual Concert Halls and Vox Novus are proud to feature these string players to present new music by living composers.

Lehner String Quartet performing works from last Contemporary Quartets Project

Composer’s Voice features Lehner String Quartet presenting Ben Boone and Robert Voisey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiSJNlnAEEo

Composer’s Voice features Lehner String Quartet presenting William Toutant and Ken Paoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hVW9IlZ8Xk

Lehner String Quartet performing works from Contemporary Quartets Project November 13, 2021:
https://youtu.be/Ngk6JlbGAgQ

RUSQUARTET

RUSQUARTET was founded in 2001 at the Academic College of Music of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the tutelage of Galina Soboleva, great cellist of the Prokofiev String Quartet. Members of the RUSQUARTET are DMA graduates from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory*where they have been students of the Professor Dmitry Shebalin (Borodin String Quartet).

The musicians are actively promoting contemporary composers and rarely performed compositions. The quartet's programs include Andrei Eshpai's *Concordia discordance, two string quartets by*Mikhail Marutaev, a string quintet for two violins, two violas, and a cello by Alexander Lokshin, as well as compositions by Georges Onslow,Lex van Delden (the Netherlands), Kelly-Marie Murphy (Canada), Steve Martland (Great Britain), and Jonathan Dove (Great Britain), Olli Mustonen (Finland).

RUSQUARTET performing works from Contemporary Quartets Project February 3rd, 2022:
https://youtu.be/D5yKeSuQtEY