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Attacca Quartet, Caroline Shaw coming to DePauw next week
The DePauw University School of Music will welcome the Attacca Quartet and Caroline Shaw for a three-day residency, which will include the first Green Guest Artist concert of the 2021-22 season.
Beginning on Oct. 12, they will meet with classes, lead extended technique workshops, give two concerts and speak at the School of Music’s weekly convocation.
The Attacca Quartet is a Grammy Award-winning string quartet hailing from New York City. The “surprisingly powerful experience” of their playing has been felt at venues internationally as well as across the United States, including the Gothenburg Konserthuset in Sweden, the Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao in Spain and the Lincoln Center in New York. They have also participated in the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, a project which provides free concerts across New York, and the MITO SettembreMusica in Italy.
The members’ other projects span from teaching, performing and composing.
Violinist Amy Schroeder has performed with various orchestras across the country and is currently a faculty member at Vassar College. Domenic Salerni is a composer, arranger and performer. He performs with Attacca Quartet as well as the PostClassical Ensemble and will be performing Mahler’s “Symphony No. 3” alongside the Baltimore Symphony. Violinist Nathan Schram is the founder of Musicambia, which brings music learning and performance to incarcerated individuals across the country. Cellist Andrew Yee is one of the founding members of Attacca alongside Amy Schroeder. Yee won first prize for their idea of a wearable device that makes physical vibrations from sound to allow hearing-impaired individuals to experience music.
Also from New York is vocalist, violinist, composer, producer and teacher Caroline Shaw. Her performance career includes singing as a part of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, for which she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Partita for 8 Voices.” Her compositions have been commissioned by Renée Fleming, The Seattle Symphony, Anne Sofie von Otter, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and many others. She is currently on faculty at New York University and has been in residence at schools and festivals across the country.
The event lineup will be as follows:
• Oct. 12: Thompson Recital Hall – vocal workshop with Caroline Shaw, 4:30 p.m.
• Oct. 12: Thompson Recital Hall – string workshop with Attacca Quartet, 7 p.m.
• Oct. 13: Music on the Square – ChamberQUEER concert with Andrew Yee and Caroline Shaw, 7:30 p.m.
• Oct. 14: Kresge Auditorium – Green Guest Artist concert with Attacca Quartet and Caroline Shaw, 7:30 p.m.
Both workshops will focus on “extended techniques,” playing and singing techniques that are not a part of the traditional repertoire.
ChamberQUEER is an LGBTQIA+-oriented organization that programs music by queer composers from the classical canon as well as the present. Beginning in 2019, the organization hosted a festival in Brooklyn during Pride Month. Due to COVID-19, the second festival was canceled and replaced with ChamberQUEERantine, a 16-day broadcast event of more than 50 queer artists.