Catch Electric Guitar Quartet

- Wiek Hijmans – electric guitar
- Seth Josel – electric guitar
- Patricio Wang – electric guitar
- Mark Haanstra – electric bass guitar

Program:

- Alan Tormey – Cowboy Song (Hope Dies Last) (2006) for guitar quartet and tape
- Seth Cluett - a murmur which redoubles (2006) for guitar quartet and tape
- Huib Emmer – Aurora (2005)

Intermission

- Michael Early - Four guitars in three shorts (2006)
- Scott Smallwood – una occasione d’oro (2006)
- Peter Adriaansz – Serenades II-IV (No 23) (2004)

Thanks to the Nederlands Fonds voor Podium Kunsten and Gaudeamus for supporting this concert.

A near 20-year crisscrossing of paths and collaborations, e.g. within the context of rock bands and free improvisation groups as well in contemporary ensembles, provides the backdrop for the members of the Amsterdam-based CATCH quartet. In 2003 the world premiere of Steve Mackey’s Dreamhouse - a Holland Festival commission - finally provided the opportunity to bring together the talents of all four musicians on one stage. Since then, the quartet has been involved in further premiere performances (Peter Adriaansz, Huib Emmer, Christopher Fox,), ensemble collaborations (Cappela Amsterdam), and has become the ensemble in residence at the OUTPUT festival in Amsterdam. In April 2007 the group was in residence at Princeton University, culminating in the premiere performance of seven new works specifically written for the occasion. The long-awaited North American premiere of Dreamhouse was presented May 2007 with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project about which Jeremy Eichler of the Boston Globe wrote: “the four guitars (played by the Catch Electric Guitar Quartet) bring some highly unusual sonorities to the orchestra and some turbo-charged power to the work's caterwauling climax.” The group collaborated with the Slagwerk Den Haag, featuring a tour of Holland in the Autumn of 2007.