Sinta Quartet
Monday, September 18, 2023
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students
“Virtuosic to the core” (Textura) and hailed as “a tight-knit
ensemble exploding with power and virtuosity” (Boston Musical
Intelligencer), the Sinta Quartet is on a mission to bring the
versatility, homogeneity, and excitement of the saxophone to audiences
everywhere. Strengthening an already palpable connection with its
audience by performing entirely from memory, the quartet provides a
fresh take on chamber music that is at once beautiful, virtuosic, and
a completely interactive experience.
The Sinta Quartet
injects music and fun into the air for unsuspecting passersby by
appearing in nontraditional venues such as grocery stores, bars, and
other public places, but they have also performed in venues such as
Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, and the Beijing Center for the
Performing Arts. Since forming in 2010 as soloists for a tour of China
with the University of Michigan Symphony Band, the quartet has
concertized in 9 countries, 32 states, and 2 Canadian provinces,
giving diverse audiences a chance to experience a classical saxophone
quartet for the first time. The Sinta Quartet made history in 2013 as
the first saxophone ensemble to win the Victor Elmaleh First Prize
from the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and continued to achieve
success on the competition circuit, winning the Gold Medal at the 2018
Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, First Prize at the 2017 M-Prize
Chamber Arts Competition, the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 2013
Coleman Chamber Music Competition, and 1st Prize at the 2012 North
American Saxophone Alliance Competition.
The quartet’s
programming takes the audience on an adventure through time,
geography, and genre, often mixing classics from the 18th, 19th, and
20th centuries with commissions by today’s composers and rollicking
in-house arrangements from various folk traditions. In addition to
their live performances, the quartet recently released two albums
featuring predominantly recent commissions and winning pieces from
Sinta Quartet’s annual National Composition Competition. The first,
Collider, hailed as, "An exciting ride! The ensemble, intonation,
and technique in this recording are beyond question" (The
Saxophonist Magazine), was released in 2019, and the second, Ex
Machina, which was praised as “tightly performed and flawlessly
recorded in generous, in-your-face sound” (Musical America), was
released in 2020.
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Location Information
Louis Armstrong Theatre
Thomas J. and Marcia J. Haas Center for
Performing Arts
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This event was added to the calendar by Kristen Krueger-Corrado (kruegekr@gvsu.edu) on Friday, August 4, 2023 and was last updated on Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:24 a.m.