About Bach has been performed in Bologna, Innsbruck, Jakarta, London, Montréal, New York City, Régina, Snape Bridge, Tilburg, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg…
This string quartet is an expansion of a solo work for viola (of the same name) which was commissioned by philanthropist Daniel Cooper for violist Pemi Paull. It’s a piece about process, about Pemi’s musicality, about Bach of course, and in the end, about the Quatuor Bozzini.
I first took a recording of a short phrase (the first phrase in major) of the famous Chaconne from Bach’s Partita no. 2, performed live by Pemi. I then meticulously transcribed the recording with the help of some software — this is a process I’ve developed over some years to apprehend the exact rhythmic musicality of a performance, capturing as well various artifacts such as the viola’s upper partials as they change within each bow-stroke.
The opening of the piece is simply this transcribed phrase of Bach, with a harmony of my own making, which turns the phrase into a gently jaunty chorale. From there the phrase goes through a somewhat inaudible process that is simply let to run, until it runs itself out. It’s a constant meandering, a non-developmental piece in an extreme sense. My interest (and freedom) in exploring such a simple form comes directly from working with the Quatuor Bozzini, and this string quartet version is a souvenir of gratitude for years of great inspiration.
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May 2015
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Bologna (Italy)
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Marc 2016
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Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada)
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Marc 2017
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Régina (Saskatchewan, Canada)
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May 2017
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Victoria (British Columbia, Canada)
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Sept 2017
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Montréal (Québec)
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Sept 2017
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Toronto (Ontario, Canada)
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Augu 2018
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Jakarta (Indonesia)
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Augu 2018
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New York City (New York, USA)
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Sept 2018
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Innsbruck (Austria)
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Octo 2018
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Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)
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Nove 2019
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Tilburg (Netherlands)
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Marc 2020
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Birmingham (England, UK)
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June 2020
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Aldeburgh (England, UK)
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Nove 2022
7:30 pm
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Montréal (Québec)
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Dece 2022
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London (England, UK)
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June 2023
3:30 pm
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Snape Bridge (England, UK)
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