[Voxnovus] Composer's Voice Features The Lehner String Quartet Presents New Works by 5 Contemporary Composers

[Robert Voisey]

The Lehner String Quartet Presents New Works by 5 Contemporary Composers



Composer’s Voice is featuring the Lehner String Quartet realize the works
of 5 living composers from around the world.   Vox Novus in conjunction
with Virtual Concert Halls is pleased to be producing this LIVE online
performance of this excellent ensemble of string players.



The Lehner Quartet will be performing 5 new works by contemporary composer
broadcasted live online March 6, 2021 at 1:00 PM U.S. Eastern Standard
Time.  Virtual Concert Halls will be broadcasting live online to several
streaming platforms including: YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook.



YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Ra_-Ufzf2rQ

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/104371571259253/posts/266794028350339/

Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/502437670

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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: William Toutant, Miguel
Heatwole, Ken Paoli, Kevin Pang, and Tatiana Mikova.



Quarantine Quartet by William Toutant

The composwr wrote this piece during the quarantine/lockdown ordered caused
by the Covid-19 pandemic. Quarantine Quartet reflects his varied emotions
during this time of enforced confinement.



William Toutant became Professor Emeritus in May 2013 at California State
University, Northridge after 38 years teaching music. For eighteen years
wrote and hosted the weekly radio program, “The KCSN Opera House.”



Reef Dive Quartet by Miguel Heatwole

Being the son and uncle of marine biologists Miguel’s imagination took him
to the Great Barrier Reef and drew him under to a threatened world of
spectacular alien beauty.



Miguel Heatwole began his career as a choral musician during the 1990s. As
musical director of Ecopella and of the Solidarity Choir he arranged and
composed numerous pieces on environmental and social justice themes.



String quartet #3

String Quartet 3 was written while Ken was serving as a visiting professor
at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.



Ken Paoli is the Professor of Music at College of DuPage. Ken is involved
in archiving and researching the works of American composer Phil Winsor.
Ken’s research and interest includes algorithmic composition.



Serenata & Consolation from a suite for String Quartet

La Serenata was written as an impression to serenade, a musical genre
historically intended for evening performances.

Consolation was inspired by a poem of the same title, written by the
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.



Kevin Pang is a Hong Kong-based composer and medical doctor. His
compositions had been selected for the Hong Kong Contemporary Music
Festival 2020, Music Salon of Hong Kong Composers’ Guild and composition
masterclass with Prof Ken Ueno at UC Berkeley.



String Quartet “In Modo Lidico”


Tatiana Mikova’s Quartet In Modo Lidico refers to Morava – a region of the
Czech Republic, where the composer was born.



The music of London based Czech composer Tatiana Mikova straddles two
worlds: The concert hall and the movie. Her Two Nonets performed by
renowned The Czech Nonet won Global Music Awards/USA and were featured on
American Public Media/Performance Today, Classical KUSC/Los Angeles,
Classical KDFC/San Francisco and other stations worldwide.
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