Pocket Harmony, developed by Tim Summers

From Tim: “I’ve been curious to develop my harmonic conceptions and harmonic hearing for a long time… during the course of this curiosity (which continues), I developed some software over the years, the latest piece of which is this colorful little harmony app for the iPhone. I can’t speak, necessarily, to how useful it is. (I can’t speak to how useful an iPhone is, in any broad sense.) But I have enjoyed building it and found that it clarifies my ideas about harmonic relationships.

“I decided to color-code chords within keys to keys in such a way as to make their shared content clearer, if not absolutely clear. And then, of course, the sounds are there to be heard with the colors.”  It is available at the iTunes store. http://itunes.com/app/PocketHarmony

Works on iPhone and iPod touch.  Comments and suggestions welcome.

The quartet will be performing a program of Haydn (Op. 20, no. 6), Beethoven (Op. 74, ‘Harp’), and Schubert (’Quartettsatz’) at ‘de Ruimte’ gallery:  Pieter de Hooghstraat 22, Amsterdam.

The Quartet will be performing in San Sebastian Spain, with the Musikene Chamber Orchestra (program to include Elgar Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and Orchestra). Concerts on 3 and 4 April.

The Quartet will perform in Sabadell, Catalunya, on April 17, 2009. Program as follows:

Schubert: Quartettsatz
Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 74 (’Harp’)
Bartok: String Quartet #6

Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009, 20:30 Uhr, in der

Städtischen Galerie Villa Zanders,
Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8
51465 Bergisch Gladbach

Karten an der Theaterkasse Bergischer Löwe
Tel. (02202) 38999, und an der Abendkasse.

Jean Sibelius´“Voces intimae” und Erinnerungen an einen guten Freund
– Quartets of Aubert Lemeland, Jean Sibelius, and Luis de Pabló

The Quartet will perform two concerts at the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia (US), on September 17 (8:00PM) and September 20 (3:00PM), 2009. Programs TBA. (To include Schubert Quartettsatz, Bartok Quartet #6, Beethoven Op. 131, and Brahms Bb Sextet.)

The quartet will be in residency at the Savonlinna Music Academy in Finland, both teaching and performing, for its 2009 season.

The quartet will be again in residence for teaching and concerts in Cervera, Spain, from July 22 to July 31. More information is available at the Curs Internacional de Música Cervera web site.

The quartet will be performing at the 40th annual Deutscher Bratschistentag on November 9th, with violist Karin Wolf. The performance will take place at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, with the program as follows:

Haydn: String Quartet in A Major, Op. 20, no. 2
Mozart: String Quintet in D Major, K. 593
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 74 (”Harp”)

The performance will be at 7:30 PM, in the Partika-Saal.

Archetier Stephane Muller completed a set of bows for the quartet (Earth, Air, Fire, and Water), which was used for the concert in Cervera, Spain, on July 22, 2008. Congratulations again from the Quartet to Stephane for his work, and here they are to see… more pictures will follow.