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.