NAC Concert Series Presents: Holes in the Floor

    Showings

    Studio Theater Sun, Feb 17, 2019 4:00 PM
    INFORMATION
    Rating:Unrated
    Run Time:90 Minutes
    Genre:Live Concert
    Category:Concerts

    Description

    Nantucket Arts Council Downtown Concert Series Presents: Holes in the Floor, a Cello Quartet

    Boston-based cello quartet Holes in the Floor is comprised of cellists Jonathan Butler,

    Eunghee Cho, Yejin Hong, and Joy Yanai who have each built global reputations

    winning major prizes in numerous international string competitions. A relatively new

    addition to the international musical community, the ensemble strives to redefine the

    popularity and expressive potential of classical music through exciting and engaging

    performances and presentations of beloved classics as well as new commissions and

    premieres.

    Members of Holes in the Floor have performed at festivals and with ensembles around

    the globe, including with the Verbier Festival Orchestra (Switzerland), Pacific Music

    Festival Orchestra (Japan), the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival (U.S.A.), Cello

    Biënnale Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Banff Music Festival (Canada) and with the

    Sung Nam Symphony Orchestra (South Korea). Since forming at the New England

    Conservatory of Music in 2017, Holes in the Floor has been invited to perform on such

    concert series as the Old First Concerts series in San Francisco, Third Sunday Concert

    Series in Berkeley, Nancy Lee Clark concert series at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts,

    MIT’s Music at Whitehead series, New England Conservatory’s Tuesday Night New

    Music series, Music on Norway Pond, and as ensemble-in-residence with the Mellon

    Music Festival.

    Through New England Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship Grant, the quartet

    commissioned two new works for cello quartet and performed two more world premieres

    on their recent tour of California. Advocates of an evolving musical tradition, Holes in

    the Floor regularly commissions young composers to write new cello quartets which are

    programmed alongside the ensemble’s own arrangements and transcriptions of their

    favorite repertoire.