QNG Wishes All Of You Happy New Year And Looks Back To A Wonderful Year 2012
Dear Friends Of QNG,
we hope you had wonderful christmas holidays! Just in time for new year’s eve fireworks we would like to share a short review of 2012 with you.
Highlights:
Every concert is something special of course, but there are some which will be remembered even more. Next to performances through Europe we would like to point out following events: at the Berlin new music festival ULTRASCHALL 2012 we premiered Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri’s „untitled IV – atemlos“. This is already the second piece written for our group by this greek composer.
Furthermore we premiered transcriptions of Alexandra Filonenko’s „Sirenen“ and Sofia Gubaidulina’s „Quartet for four flutes“.
During our U.S. tour we played the opening concert at this year’s MATA Festival in New York together with the reknown JACK Quartet and premiered Qin Yi’s „Sound Shadow“ written for recorder quartet and Yotam Haber’s „Estro poetic-armonico“ written for QNG and JACK.
We travelled on together with the five singers from CALMUS Ensemble and our program „Blaze of Glory“ including a premiere by the american composer and Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Moravec „Lord, make me an instrument of your peace“.
QNG-Babies 2012:
End of June we ‚gave birth‘ to our third CD „Fantasy ’n‘ Symmetry“ – recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk and published by label GENUIN, Leipzig. We would like to thank both institutions for their wonderful support. Next to fugues written by J.S. Bach, G.F. Händel and D. Shostakowitch you will find new works written by W. Blecharz, M.E. Childs, Y. Pasowsky and E. Reiter. Next to radio broadcasts you can find reviews in magazines like “De Blockfluitist”, “Ensemble, “Tibia” and “Windkanal”.
And we are more than happy to announce that Andrea gave birth to her daughter Jasmine in August!
Special Thanks:
A big THANK YOU to Miako and Yoshiko Klein as well as Inga Maria Klaucke for their inspiring support in many rehearsals and concerts this year!
At the same time we would like to welcome Petra Wurz as a new QNG member – there will be new photos on our website soon!
Thanks again to the recorder makers from KÜNG and Mollenhauer, who are supporting us with their beautiful instruments. In September they presented their recorders at a special exhibition during our concert- and workshop weekend at „Holzbläser“ Berlin.
Preview 2013:
Next fall QNG will celebrate its 15 years anniversary! There will be a big jubilee concert at the BKA Berlin!
We thank all our friends, families and fans for their support, loyalty and company!
Our very best wishes for a happy New Year 2013!
QNG
Andrea, Heide, Petra, Susanne
www.quartetnewgeneration.com
PS: And here a musical „dessert“ for those who want to dive into QNG`s soundscapes.
PPS: On January 14th we are welcoming the new year with our first concert in 2013 at the „Bad Kissinger Winterzauber“ (for more info check our website)