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String Quartets
Elliott Miles McKinley composer
The Martinu Quartet
Richmond-based composer Elliott Miles McKinley’s STRING QUARTETS features three of the composer’s string quartets, commissioned by the Martinu String Quartet from Prague. These works span the first decade of the 21st century and show a progression of McKinley’s compositional skill, marking him as an innovative composer early in the new millennium. Through these works McKinley displays his high-modernist aesthetic and jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies, creating complex pieces that are performed masterfully by the Martinu Quartet.
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Elliott Miles McKinley
Elliott Miles McKinley’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Commissions include those from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, the SOLI Chamber Music Ensemble, Transient Canvas, Hub New Music, the Semiosis String Quartet, the Estrella Consort, the Janàček Trio, and the Martinů String Quartet. His orchestral works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Czech Radio Symphony, and his music has been featured on international festivals including the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, the SPARK Electroacoustic Music Festival, Society of Music Inc and College Music Society Conferences, the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference, and the Contemporary Music Festival at Bowling Green State University.
