thurs april 28 | 10:00 pm

$24 | $12 students/seniors | eyego

Penderecki String Quartet + DJ P-Love

The Wax
125 King Street West

With a new work by Kotoka Suzuki for the PSQ and interactive electronics, the evening includes Steve Reich’s pulsating classic Different Trains and Nicole Lizée’s This Will Not Be Televised for strings, percussion, and turntables.

Program

The Penderecki String Quartet, approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their "remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep" (Toronto, Globe and Mail).

The Penderecki Quartet collaborates regularly with eminent and diverse artists such as Martin Beaver, Atar Arad, Antonio Lysy, Luba Dubinsky, Jeremy Menuhin, James Campbell, jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett, pipa virtuoso Ching Wong, choreographer David Earle, NYC turntable artist DJ Spooky, and actor Colin Fox. The Penderecki Quartet was founded in Poland in 1986 at the urging of the pre-eminent Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The fruit of their association includes Penderecki's complete works for String Quartet on CD (United Records, England).

To this day the Quartet is a devoted champion of the music of our time, and has performed a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brahms, Bartók to Ligeti, Frank Zappa to John Oswald, as well as premiering over 100 new works from numerous composers including Brian Cherney, Linda C. Smith, Randolph Peters, Harry Freedman, Glenn Buhr, Alice Ho, Peter Hatch, Omar Daniel and Gilles Tremblay.

P-Love is an electronic / trip-hop / hiphop producer from New York, USA. He makes music with turntables, piano-type things, and various handheld digital/analog instruments. P-Love has an album called All Up in Your Mind (2005) out on Bully Records and has also been involved with some Ninja Tune releases.