PETRAM

Sonar Quartett

To compose together as a quartet means a very immediate form of expression, the Sonar Quartet is searching for. You pick up your instrument, listen to sounds, express emotions, reflect, and leave things behind.
With the concert series EVOLUTION 2020/2021, the four musicians were already focusing on working as a composing string quartet.
“Petram” (rock) is the title of a new series of works by the Sonar Quartet: There are four types of magma from which the rocks rhyolite, andesite, basalt and picrite are formed. The four new compositions for string quartet that will be presented in the concerts sound as different as the four types of stone. As an antithesis, two works by musicians who are also composing will be heard in the concerts.

• Sonar Quartett: »PETRAM« vierteilige Eigenkomposition (2021/UA)
• Matthias Bauer (*1959): »Gandr« für Streichquartett (2012)
• Marc Sabat (*1965): »Beautiful City« für Streichquartett (1994)

Sonar Quartett

Susanne Zapf, Violine, (alternierend)
Wojciech Garbowski, Violine, (alternierend)
Nikolaus Schlierf, Viola
Konstantin Manaev, Violoncello

Mit „Petram“ schlägt das Sonar Quartett eine Brücke zwischen Komponieren und Improvisieren. Mutig verschieben die Musiker:innen dabei ihre Grenzen und streben ein höchstes Niveau in der Qualität und Einzigartigkeit der neuen Kompositionen an.