Scott Lee: String Quartet No. 1 (Ars Nova String Quartet)

String Quartet No. 1 (2008), by Scott Lee (b. 1988)

Performed by the Ars Nova String Quartet:
Benjamin and Caroline Hart, violins
Christopher Lowry, viola
Emily Nelson, violoncello

Scott Lee is an American composer of concert music who recently graduated from Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Currently, Lee is pursuing his masters in composition at the Peabody Conservatory, where he studies with Michael Hersch.

Here are the composer's notes about this piece:

"I. The first movement consists of a series of fugues. Each fugue explores a different way of making the voices distinct. The first fugue is homorhythmic, and therefore distinguishes the voices by means of different registers. The second uses different tempi, while the third is a more traditional fugue in five voices on four instruments.
"II. The second movement is a single undeveloped thought.
"III. The third movement is rhythmic and full of energy. It develops both Latin rhythms and metric modulations and brings the piece to a boisterous finish."


For more information, visit Scott Lee's website at: www.scottleemusic.net


This video documents one of our first performances together as a quartet. I apologize for the poor video quality (there must have been an error in the encoding process), but the audio quality is still good.

Recorded live on Thursday, April 2, 2009, 3:00pm, in Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall.
Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN

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