PRISM Quartet

An award-winning sax ensemble, the PRISM Quartet charts fresh musical territory with chamber recitals, concerto appearances, and groundbreaking collaborations.

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PRISM Quartet presents PREMIERES — a pay-what-you-wish concert of newly commissioned works.
📍 June 6 | 7 PM — Philly 📍 June 7 | 4 PM — NYC
🎷 Don Byron — Quartet🎷 Grant Stewart — Kind Mothers🎷 Teddy Poll — There/Back🎷 Henry Vidaver — Via Appia
Plus Emily Cooley's "Dissolve"

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Emily Cooley wrote Dissolve in 2018 as the inaugural winner of PRISM's Robert Capanna Commissioning Award. The second movement arrives as a quiet hymn, nostalgic rather than desolate.
Come hear it live: Philadelphia · June 6 / NYC · June 7 Tickets: https://t.co/KIHbcQgCTx

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Watch the trailer for Emily Cooley's Dissolve — live on PRISM Quartet's PREMIERES concerts in Philadelphia June 6 and NYC June 7.
Her description: "an angular, urgent melody... that warps, becomes layered, and ultimately dissolves into silence."
Tickets at https://t.co/w0bvvRzBOj

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Meet Emily Cooley, the composer behind Dissolve! 🎶From teaching music in PA prisons to becoming a legal aid attorney, her work explores power & social justice. ⚖️Hear her music live at PRISM’s PREMIERES:📅 June 6: Philly📅 June 7: NYC Tix: https://t.co/w0bvvRzBOj #newmusic

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Ahead of @PRISMQuartet's June 6 (Philly) & June 7 (NYC) concerts, a look at Teddy Poll’s There/Back. Inspired by the ABA musical form & Tolkien’s "There and Back Again," it explores departure & return. Poll is the 2025 Capanna Award winner! #newmusic #worldpremiere #sax #tolkien

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Ahead of PREMIERES on 6/6 in PHL & 6/7 in NYC, we're taking a look at each commissioned composer. Next up is Teddy Poll. Conducting credits include Houston Grand Opera, Juilliard, Opera PHL, Glimmerglass and SF Opera. and commissions from PCMS and the Presser Foundation!

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New music. Two cities. Pay what you wish.

PRISM Quartet presents PREMIERES

📍 6/6, 7 PM — PHL
📍 6/7, 4 PM — NYC

Music by
🎷 Don Byron
🎷 Grant Stewart
🎷 Teddy Poll
🎷 Henry Vidaver
🎷 Emily Cooley

https://t.co/KIHbcQgCTx

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Ahead of PRISM Quartet's PREMIERES concerts on 6/6 in Philly and 6/7 in NYC, we're taking an in-depth look at each commissioned work on the program. Read all about Grant Stewart’s “KIND MOTHERS.”
https://t.co/WIALery7ST] Presented alongside premieres by Don Byron and Teddy Poll.

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For Your GRAMMY® Consideration - PRISM Quartet has a number of recordings in the running for nominations this year, including Best Chamber Music Performance, Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Thanks for listening! https://t.co/jObgohSF53

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OUT TODAY - TITLE by @adambsilverman

https://t.co/PADTVIRXLT

@symphonicdist @connselmerinc @Spotify @AppleMusic @zshemon @McAllisterSax

#saxophone #newmusicalert #recording #Wordle

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Premiere of Mesovortex by Aaron Nichols
Winner of 2024 PRISM Quartet/@WaldenSchoolNH Student Commissioning Award
https://t.co/NhvXot8MTY

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NYC and Philly fans - not to be missed! @miguelzenon @McAllisterSax @zshemon @mlevy257 #taimursullivan @symphonicdist @connselmerinc @SettlementMusic @AppleMusic @Spotify #newmusicalert #gigalert
#WORLDPREMIERE #saxquintet

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Tyshawn Sorey on his GENERATE MUSIC commission. - GM is a new body of work exploring the ties between Jewish and Black Americans. PRISM w/@DavidKrakauer Diane Monroe @urucker @tdrumr41 Susan Watts @davidgilmoregtr & Reuben Rogers.
6/8 @worldcafelive - PHL
6/9 @Roulette_NYC

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Generate Music poet and performance artist @ursularucker and co-curator Helen Haynes, from a project meeting last year.
Panel discussions start next week - May 28 and 30 in Philly - and concerts are June 8 and 9 in Philly and Brooklyn. Let us gather!

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Free GENERATE MUSIC panel discussion tonight at 6 PM at Philly's @weitzmanmuseum featuring Diane Monroe, Susan Watts, David Gilmore, moderated by WWFM's David Osenberg. RSVP now - you won't want to miss it!

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A @DownBeatMag review of Heritage/Evolution Vol. 3 & preview of Generate Music, summing up PRISM's four decades together. "Perhaps the most well-rounded — and most in-tune — saxophone quartet ever ... a model of open-mindedness and artistic refinement." https://t.co/QIMUveG7qb

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WORLD PREMIERE: GENERATE MUSIC - A new body of work exploring the ties between Jewish and Black Americans. PRISM w/@DavidKrakauer Diane Monroe
@urucker @tdrumr41 Susan Watts @davidgilmoregtr
& Reuben Rogers. 6/8 @worldcafelive, 6/9 @Roulette_NYC
Tix$10&up https://t.co/uq25EJRvHs

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WORLD PREMIERE: GENERATE MUSIC - A new body of work exploring the ties between Jewish and Black Americans. PRISM w/@DavidKrakauer Diane Monroe @urucker @tdrumr41 Susan Watts @davidgilmoregtr & Reuben Rogers.
6/8 @worldcafelive
6/9 @Roulette_NYC
Tix$10&up https://t.co/uq25EJRvHs