Ellie was extremely well received at the special screening at BAFTA on wednesday. The film gets it’s world premiere tonight at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Below is a snippet from the soundtrack. Enjoy! (If the soundcloud player doesn’t appear, click on the link below to hear the track) Ellie’s Leaving by Solaris Quartet
Ellie, the short film we recorded the music for with pianist John-Paul Gandy in January this year, is being screened at BAFTA on Wednesday 5th Oct at 8.30pm. This is prior to it’s world premiere at the 30th Vancouver International Film Festival on Friday 7th Oct. The film is the 5th collaboration between director Chris [...]
The track Hope for Strings from our library album Cinematic String Quartet is currently being used as the trailer music for the Dutch film Among Us directed by Marco van Geffen. The film is being screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2011.
We’re really looking forward to playing this concert this weekend. The start time of the concert is 7pm not 7.30pm as previously stated.
The quartet will be performing at St. Swithins Church, Shobrooke, Devon on 16th July 2011 at 1900. The programme is in memory of Geoffrey Stern, a great friend and champion of the quartet and has been organised by his partner Joy Moore. It will consist of 2 pieces from the quartet’s recent composition competition organised [...]
Just a quick post to say well done to all the young composers who took part in the composers workshop at the weekend. We had a great time playing through all your compositions. A big thank you to Jeffery Wilson for organising the event and also to Michael Christie for playing the 2nd cello part [...]
The quartet are going to be working with several talented young composers this saturday at the Junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. We’re all very much looking forward to playing the new compositions by next generation’s rising stars.
The quartet will be performing at the Musée d’Art Sacré Contemporain in St. Hughes-de-Chartreuse, near Grenoble on Sunday 29th May 2011 at 16h. The programme will be: Josef Suk Meditation on Wenceslas Chorale Ralph Vaughan Williams Quartet in G minor G.I.Gurdjieff/T. de Hartmann Kurd Shepherd Melody G.I.Gurdjieff/T. de Hartmann Dervish Dance This concert forms part of [...]
Greek-Armenian mystic George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff travelled extensively through Central Asia, Russia and Egypt, collecting sacred, monastic and tribal music and then transcribing and arranging it with the help of Russian composer Thomas de Hartmann in the 1920s. The resulting volumes of piano music have been rearranged for string quartet for the first time here. The [...]
Less is more. It’s hard to believe that four musicians can create such vivid emotions, but SQ031 Cinematic String Quartet proves it! This one is moodier than manic depression – determination, doubt, sadness, anxiety, excitement, curiosity, glorious hope and playful fancy. Think of it as the emotional Yin and Yang of dramatic production music! 5 alarm [...]