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Cutting Edge Contemporary Classical Music

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Hinge Quartet: Commissioning Project

Help Hinge Quartet commission four awesome composers!

 Boston, MA, US
  • $1,366 raised of $4,000 goal
  • 18 donations
  • -4581 minutes left
This is a Fiscally-Sponsored Project

Fiscally Sponsored by Fractured Atlas

Hinge Quartet is commissioning four awesome composers with premieres throughout this season and next!

Hinge Quartet


ABOUT US:
Praised as “experimental and ethereal” and a “welcome addition to the new music scene,” Hinge Quartet is made up of Philipp Stäudlin (saxophones), Dan VanHassel (electric guitar), Matt Sharrock (percussion), and Keith Kirchoff (piano). Lying somewhere between a chamber ensemble and an avant-garde rock band, Hinge Quartet combines cutting-edge contemporary classical and experimental music with seamless multimedia integration and the innovative re-imagining of rock and pop songs.

The Composers: Chen-Hui Jen, Bahar Royaee, Kirsten Volness, and LJ White


THE COMMISSIONING PROJECT:
Hinge Quartet is passionate about expanding our repertoire to include diverse voices, perspectives, and aesthetics. We have selected four composers whose work we are super excited about! Chen-Hui Jen is a Taiwanese-American composer, poet, and pianist based in Miami whose music presents an imaginative, spiritual, and poetic space. Bahar Royaee writes music that combines timbral atmospheric structures with lyrical influences derived from her Iranian background. Kirsten Volness creates music that is both groovy and graceful, through the refined use of electronics and modern composition techniques overlaid with jazz and pop influences. LJ White's music explores strange and evocative sonorities, rhythms, concise gestures, and apposite forms. He is strongly interested in the physical voice (spoken, sung, emulated, and as metaphor,) popular culture, issues of gender identity and queerness, and sociopolitical conditions.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Please support Hinge and our composer collaborators with a donation – no matter the size! After you make your gift, please help us spread the word by sharing this on your preferred social media page, emailing it to a friend, or even calling someone on the phone to gush about us – whatever you can do to help get this campaign in front of as many people as possible!

THANK YOU!
From all of us at Hinge Quartet, thank you so much! We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming concert, and to singing your praises for your support!

Hinge Quartet is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Hinge Quartet must be made payable to "Fractured Atlas" only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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