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In todays show we will hear members the ensemble talk about the rehearsal and performance of the 3rd String Quartet by Georg Friedrich Haas, which is to be performed in complete darkness. They performed this piece as part of a concert at Studioboerne45 in September last year:

Georg Friedrich Haas: “In iij. Noct”, 3. Streichquartett (2001) smallroom string quartet

Julia Yoo Soon Gröning – Violine Georg Theophil Dan – Violine Alexina Hawkins – Viola Anna Karolina Egger – Violoncello

Smallroom is a Berlin-based ensemble founded in 2015 by director and horn player Georgia Ioakimidis-MacDougall. The group presents site-specific projects which move freely between notated music, improvisation and installation works. The core members have a variety of experience in composition, improvisation and playing challenging notated solo and chamber works. In 2016, Smallroom collaborated with a number of composers including Nicoletta Chatzopoulou (Greece) and Liza Lim (Australia) to present programs in both iconic and unconventional performance spaces. These presentations are grown from a specific theme or aesthetic, and are designed with careful attention to the spatial, dramaturgical and narrative elements. Throughout February, Ad Libitum will feature four of these concerts