Momenta Quartet

Sunday, Sep 14, 2025 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Saratoga Springs United Methodist Church
518-584-1427

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motet for four voices (ca. 1584) transcribed for string quartet

Julián Carrillo String Quartet No. 4

Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major

Emilie-Anne Gendron & Alex Shiozaki, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello

Momenta: the plural of momentum - four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet, whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of allaesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past. The New York City-based quartet has premiered over 200 works, collaborated with over 250 living composers and was praised by The New York Times for its “diligence, curiosity and excellence.” In the words of The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, “few American players assume Haydn’s idiom with such ease.

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