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The fifth offering from the h2 quartet, Enrapture featuresmainly work commissioned by and written for the group. Works included on thisrelease:
The Kansas Rapture - Farhad Forrest Pierce
Alaric I or II - Gavin Bryars
corpus, fractum - Tina Tallon
Lost - Igor Karča
A Farewell Mambo (to Willy) - Paquito D\'Rivera
The award-winning h2 quartet has been wowing audiences since2002. h2 takes advantage of the great expressive capacity of their instrumentby programming traditional, avant-garde, minimalist, and jazz-influenced worksin surprising and compelling ways. h2 has performed throughout the UnitedStates, in Europe, the UK and in Asia.
The ensemble has released seven critically-acclaimedrecordings: Generations, Times & Spaces, Groove Machine, Hard Line,Enrapture, Soul Searching, and Infinity Mirror. These recordings feature someof the most cutting edge composers of today, and often showcase unexpected andintriguing relationships between different kinds of popular and avant-gardemusic.
The h2 quartet has been featured on NPR and PBS programs,including the nationally-syndicated Backstage Pass. Along withdemonstrating a mastery of traditional quartet repertoire, h2 is dedicated tothe commissioning and performing of new works. The quartet has commissionedworks by Drew Baker, Claudio Gabriele, Takuma Itoh, David MacDonald, VictorMarquez-Barrios, Roger Petersen, Forrest Pierce, David Rakowski, Jesse Ronneau,Bill Ryan, Matthew Schoendorff, Daniel Wohl, and has premiered works by JohnMackey, Marc Mellits, Mari Takano, and Amy Williams.
The h2 quartet has won prizes at the Fischoff NationalChamber Music Competition (First Prize, Gold Medals) and the North AmericanSaxophone Alliance Saxophone Quartet Competition (first prize), among others.The group was also finalists in the Concert Artists Guild Competition, andearned Honorable Mentions at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, theChesapeake Bay Chamber Music Competition, and the Coleman Chamber MusicCompetition. The ensemble’s recording of Marc Mellits’ “Groove Canon” wasfeatured as the monologue theme music for the Broadway show The HeidiChronicles, starring Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs. h2 is also therecipient of several Aaron Copland Fund Grants.
The h2 quartet is a Vandoren and Yamaha ArtistEnsemble
