ETHEL
Acclaimed as America’s premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL boldly infuses contemporary concert music with fierce intensity, questioning the boundaries between performer and audience, tradition and technology. Formed in 1998, New York’s ebullient ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers: Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Ralph Farris (viola), Dorothy Lawson (cello) and Mary Rowell (violin). ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades including repertoire by Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, David Lang, John Zorn, Steve Reich, Jacob TV, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcello Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs. Recent season highlights have included: world premiere of Phil Kline’s SPACE at the gala reopening of Lincoln Center.s Alice Tully Hall; world premiere of ETHEL’s TruckStop®: The Beginning at BAM.s Next Wave Festival; world premiere of RADIO by Osvaldo Golijov at the debut of WNYC Radio’s Jerome L. Greene Space; world premiere of ETHEL’s self-composed WAIT FOR GREEN with choreography by Annie-B Parson, commissioned by the World Financial Center; world premiere of an original live film score at Celebrate Brooklyn!; TROMP Festival with Colin Currie and Todd Rundgren; and the Grand Canyon Music Festival, where ETHEL is Ensemble-in-Residence as part of the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project. ETHEL’s latest recording, Light (Cantaloupe Records), was selected as #3 on Amazon.com’s .”Best of 2006: Top Classical Editor.s Picks.”
