Iyer's String Quartet Preview - Violin Excerpts

Written by Joshua Iyer
Published: August 10, 2015 at 9:07 PM [UTC]

Hello! I spent this early afternoon putting together a little sneak preview of my string quartet where I played the violin parts of two small excerpts from the piece. Hope you enjoy listening!

Watch the video.

Here's a little brief about the piece. Basically, in March (of this year), my friend asked me if I would write him a quartet he could play for a competition, and I said "Sure!". I wrote the first movement pretty quickly after that, and then sketched out ideas while I was in Italy. However, it wasn't until June where I actually began sketching the other three movements that made it into the final product. I composed all of that music over the summer while on walks around the neighborhood or in the forest preserve, and it has been my big project I am hopefully going to deem complete sometime very soon. I hope you enjoy this little preview, and stay tuned for the full quartet as played by my friends in the future!

Also, I'd like to introduce you to my Composition Website! I launched this a little while ago, but now you can browse through my multiple posts and listen to a few different pieces of mine. Thanks!

Visit the website.

(Also, I literally just watched the moment rain began to fall from the sky. :P)

In the fourth movement part of the video, the second violin part at the second half of that excerpt is the technique I alluded to in my June 26, 2015 post (titled "The violin as a composing tool").

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