Real Quiet
Real Quiet is a three-man band dedicated to an exclusive repertoire of hard-edge acoustic and electric music created by today’s leading composers. The three members are each highly accomplished soloists and chamber musicians whose careers have been dedicated to the advancement of contemporary music. Their first commercial recording, Tight Sweater, featured the works of Marc Mellits and was an NPR Pick of the Week. A November 2008 release on Naxos featured works by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang. Real Quiet’s work with David Lang includes the 2006 world première of Work, a video installation by Suzanne Bocanegra with music by Lang. Lang then wrote RQ a triple concerto, Pierced, which they premiered with the Munich Chamber Orchestra in 2007. Real Quiet recently toured Russia performing its own repertoire, as well as arrangements of Manorexia by Jim Thirlwell (Foetus). They also gave the première of Gordon Chin’s Uncertain Skies in Taiwan and led a three-concert residency of Steve Reich’s music in Upstate New York. Another recent tour featured the world première in Philadelphia of Fear and Loathing, a new song cycle by Phil Kline based on the writings of Hunter S. Thompson. A joint commissioning project by La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will result in new works written for Real Quiet by Marc Neikrug, Kaija Saariaho, Huang Ruo, and George Tsontakis.
