{"id":5779,"date":"2011-02-09T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T07:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:36:08","slug":"a-premiere-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/09\/a-premiere-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"a premiere in seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chiara Quartet - Photo: courtesy Chiara Quartet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daniel Ott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday night I had the great pleasure to hear the premiere of a new string quartet written by my long time friend Daniel Ott. \u00a0I’ve known Dan since he was in high school (then a french horn player in my former youth orchestra in Tacoma). \u00a0Now, he’s on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University, as well as a husband and a father two two beautiful children. \u00a0I’ve had the good fortune to perform quite a few of his works as a faculty performer at the Max Arnoff Viola Institute, which has commissioned several new works from him. \u00a0So, it was such a great experience to see his Second String Quartet given its world premiere on the University of Washington’s International Chamber Series<\/a> concert by the Chiara Quartet<\/a>. \u00a0The quartet is a major piece, around 30 minutes in length, and centers around the concept of loss, inspired by the stories of two great composers who tragically lost young children: Liszt and Mahler. \u00a0Composed in an arch form reminiscent of the quartets of B\u00e9la Bart\u00f2k, it is a piece that isn’t afraid to explore silences and long periods of glacially slow music. \u00a0The Chiara Quartet played the premiere with supreme confidence and total dedication – it was a fabulous performance. \u00a0The work was flanked by two Beethoven Quartets, which the Chiaras are presenting in a complete cycle at Harvard University this season. \u00a0The Op. 18, no. 6 quartet opened the concert, always one of my favorites for its energetic first movement, delightful slow movement theme and variations, cross rhythmic scherzo, and the last movement La malinconia<\/em> introduction. \u00a0I have always thought of it as an early period version of what would be more fleshed out in his late quartets. \u00a0The concert concluded with Beethoven’s great op. 130 string quartet with the original Grosse Fuge ending, which was given a ferocious reading of great intensity and emotion. \u00a0It was a great evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday night I had the great pleasure to hear the premiere of a new string quartet written by my long time friend Daniel Ott. \u00a0I’ve known Dan since he was in high school (then a french horn player in my former youth orchestra in Tacoma). \u00a0Now, he’s on the faculty of the Juilliard School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,136,135],"tags":[2521,2428,2522,3674],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-chamber-music","category-soloists-recitals","tag-chiara-quartet","tag-daniel-ott","tag-premiere","tag-seattle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/29\/daniel-ott-premiere\/","url_meta":{"origin":5779,"position":0},"title":"Daniel Ott premiere in NYC","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Composer Daniel Ott Friend and composer Daniel Ott, whose new work for string quartet, solo violin, and piano (\u00c3\u00a1 la Chausson) entitled Blue Water is being given its world premiere at the venerable Bargemusic concerts in New York City this weekend, deserves a shout-out from this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Way to go,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chamber music"","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/danielottmusic.com\/images\/Copy%20of%20seated.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6931,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/28\/almost-to-friday\/","url_meta":{"origin":5779,"position":1},"title":"almost to friday…","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"You still have the opportunity to pick up a ticket or two to the Arnica Quartet's Parallels: Music of Daniel Ott & Benjamin Britten concert on Friday evening (8 p.m.) at the Community Music Center's Recital Hall. 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