Premiere: RETROCON by Tom Chiu and FLUX Quartet

In their return performance at MTA, the FLUX Quartet, "one of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles around" (San Francisco Chronicle), creates a sonic perfect storm with Tom Chiu’s RETROCON. Alluding to “retrograde convection,” a meteorological phenomenon in which a storm system moves against the basic flow—thus heightening its peak intensity—RETROCON elevates a string quartet into a resonating chamber of symphonic proportions.

 

Commissioned by MTA through the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, RETROCON will be performed with iconic works by late 20th-century masters Conlon Nancarrow and John Cage, as well as new music by composer-pianist Marc Neikrug and additional emerging composers.