File:Bernard Rands Quartet 2 -- Amernet String Quartet AmerneXt!

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Amernet String Quartet Live -- FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios December 15, 2014

Misha Vitenson, violin Marcia Littley, violin Michael Klotz, viola Jason Calloway, cello

Art Installation: Nick Gilmore -- gilmoreworks.com

AmerneXt

AmerneXt is a new initiative of the Amernet String Quartet highlighting the ensemble's unique ability to bring the music of contemporary composers to vibrant life while in the same breath performing great and lesser known works of the past with its burnished, old world sound. This includes new commissions of both young and well-established composers and a new recording reflecting the group's passion for the music of our time within the continuum of previous masters. AmerneXt will present, for example, the music of Toshio Hosokawa and Toru Takemitsu alongside Dai Fujikura and arrangements of traditional Japanese folk music; Jorg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, and Georg Friedrich Haas in conjunction with Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann; Elliott Carter, Michael Gordon, and Bernard Rands interspersed with Barber and Ives; Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky at the side of Gubaidulina and Schnittke, and others. In addition, AmerneXt explores other musical traditions and cultures, past and present, including composers of Latin America - Ginastera, Revueltas, and Villa-Lobos plus Estrada, Garcia, and Lopez; the music of the Shoah, from Schulhoff and Ullmann to Weinberg and beyond; and much more.