The NeoQuartet is a Polish string quartet that focuses on performing contemporary classical music and often combines it with visual arts, modern dance, and electronics.
Compositional Technique
Art-Oliver Simon's music is not atonal in the conventional sense; it is built on whole-tone layering, with a basic model of a four-note cluster surrounding a tritone.
Recording & Production
This album features world premiere recordings of Art-Oliver Simon's works.
Composer Biography
Art-Oliver Simon, born in Hamburg in 1966, studied musicology at Freie Universität Berlin and composition at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Composer Biography
Art-Oliver Simon received the Berlin Senate Composition Prize in 1993 and the Boris Blacher Prize from the Berlin University of the Arts in 1994.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Art-Oliver Simon's music is characterized by high density and complexity, a narrative inclination, and multi-layered forms that are not immediately accessible.
Performer Biography
The NeoQuartet founded the NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts Festival in 2012, an annual event in Gdansk aimed at popularizing contemporary classical music.
You might also enjoy...
Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets
De mille feux
Halffter: Chamber Music, Vol. 3
Boris Papandopulo: The Complete String Quartets
Kunc, Lhotka & Štolcer-Slavenski: Works for String Quartet
Pavel Haas: The Complete String Quartets
Dohnanyi, E.: Serenade in C Major / Arensky, A.: String Quartet No. 2 (Live From El Paso Pro-Musica January 7, 2006)
