Yarn/Wire: New Music from Colombia

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Two-piano, two-percussion quartet Yarn/Wire has their Americas Society debut in a program focusing on living composers from Colombia, including Ricardo Gallo, Carolina Noguera, and Damián Ponce de León. The performance also features a recent work by Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri.

Program

About the ensemble

Yarn/Wire is a chamber quartet that specializes in the performance of twentieth- and twenty-first century-music. The unique instrumental combination of two percussionists and two pianists allows the ensemble to interface with both traditional performance practice and emergent stylistic trends with ease. Founded in 2005, Yarn/Wire is admired for the “spellbinding virtuosity” (Time Out NY) and “disciplined precision” (Culturecatch) they bring to performances of today's most adventurous music. The results of Yarn/Wire's collaborative initiatives are pointing toward the development of a new and lasting repertoire; partnerships with genre-bending artists such as Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf and David Bithell have led to the creation of work that is "spare and strange and very, very new." (Time Out NY)