String Quartet Smackdown VII

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1.	A Prism of Measured Time - Feona Lee Jones 03:14	buy track
2.	Malamute - Renato Marsiglia 03:42	buy track
3.	Distimia [Dysthymia] - Jimena Palma de Gyvés 04:09	buy track
4.	Machinery - Juan Sebastian VarMon 04:29	buy track
5.	Aleatory for String Quartet - Melika M. Fitzhugh 03:49	buy track
6.	The Walls Kept Me Warm - Kennedy Taylor Dixon 03:59	buy track
7.	Perhealbumi [Family Album] - Pertti Jalava 04:00	buy track
8.	Incandescence - Caroline Bordignon 03:42	buy track
9.	Life in a Day - Sebastian Birch 03:52	buy track
10.	One day in a town - Chidi Obijiaku 04:04	buy track
11.	that's a new dog - Francis Kayali 04:11	buy track
12.	Shadows in Chase - Niloufar Iravani 04:08	buy track
13.	chasing shadows - Minzuo LU 04:22	buy track
14.	Di Paio - James Ogburn 04:16	buy track
15.	kintsugi [glistening ray] - Akari Komura 04:26	buy track
16.	A Mischievous Plan - Cecilia Muylaert 03:48	buy track

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Golden Hornet's String Quartet Smackdown is a bracketed, NCAA basketball tournament style competition which brings original string quartet compositions head-to-dead in front of a live, participatory audience.

This album comprises sixteen quartets that were selected as finalists for the seventh annual concert, held in March 2021. The audience determined the champion to be Jimena Palma de Gyvés, and all finalists received studio recordings of their works.

Entrance and participation in String Quartet Smackdown is totally free and open. Purchases of this album support the continued realization of this program which supports emerging composers from diverse backgrounds worldwide.

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released March 27, 2021

Recorded Live in Mexico City

Produced by: Graham Reynolds & Golden Hornet

Curated by: Graham Reynolds, Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Fred Onovwerosuoke

Recorded by: Edgar Ordoñez

Edited by: Felipe Pérez Santiago and Edgar Ordoñez

Mastered by: Buzz Moran at Red House Studios

Performed by: Vórtice Ensemble String Quartet (Felipe Pérez Santiago, Artistic Director | Cecelia Becerra, Violin 1 | Carlos Gándara, Violin 2 | Gerardo Aponte Cupido, Viola | Salomón Guerrero | Violoncello)

Smackdown Art Design: Penny Brandt
Hand-drawn Hornet Design: Kate Murray

Golden Hornet is a composer laboratory for the 21st century, REIMAGINING CLASSICAL MUSIC through collaborative creations and adventurous programming with commitments to justice and innovation. Learn more at www.goldenhornet.org.

Artistic Director – Graham Reynolds
Managing Director – Penny Brandt
Assistant Managing Director – Allyson Moreno
Management - David Lobel, Lobel Arts

For more information about String Quartet Smackdown, or learn how you can submit a composition, visit www.stringquartetsmackdown.com

℗ & ⓒ Golden Hornet and the respective composers, 2021. All Rights Reserved.

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Golden Hornet is a non-profit which commissions new music, fosters young and emerging composers, and presents adventurous works in non-traditional settings. Led by Artistic Director Graham Reynolds and Managing Director Kate Murray. All purchases support our programming. ... more

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