Hinge Quartet: Rising from the Rubble

Mark your calendars, because Hinge Quartet is performing in Boston next month! 

First Church - 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA

Saturday March 8th @ 7:30 pm

Hinge Quartet presents a program of music inspired by, and finding new meanings in, the detritus of our collective cultures; featuring deconstructed rock music, cutting-edge live electronics, wild microtonal synths, and recomposed music of the Classical era. The program is centered around the wild and quirky Fleisch by German composer Enno Poppe, which he describes as “crushing the syntax of distorted and polluted rock music stereotypes” with new musical possibilities rising from this “rubble.” The other works on this program find inspiration in wildly different sources, from Carl Schimmel’s work inspired by a 1782 illustrated “posture-master” contorting his body into the letters of the alphabet, to artistic director Dan VanHassel’s radical recomposition of Haydn’s 1777 piano sonata in D Major. Sophisticated live electronic processing underpin the world premiere of a Hinge Quartet commission by Florida-based Taiwanese composer Chen-Hui Jen, as well as a beautiful, meditative work by Paris-based Turkish composer Didem Coskunseven.

Full Program:

Carl Schimmel: The Alphabet Turn'd Posture-Master (2009)

Didem Coskunseven: Ext.TheWoods.Night (2021)

Franz Joseph Hadyn/Dan VanHassel: Sonata in D Major (Hob. XVI:33) (1777/2025)

Chen-Hui Jen: Into Gloaming (2024) - WORLD PREMIERE

Enno Poppe: Fleisch (2017)

Performers:

Dan VanHassel - electric guitar

Matt Sharrock - percussion

Philipp Stäudlin - saxophone

Special guest: Aaron Likness - piano/keyboard

Tickets are a suggested donation of $5 - $20, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

We look forward to sharing an engaging evening of music with you!

Sincerely, Hinge Quartet

Host or Publisher Hinge