PAST EVENT

NUNAVUT
Kronos Quartet
with special guest, Tanya Tagaq

Derek Charke / selections from Inuit Throat Song Games * world premiere
I. Lullaby
II. Dogs
III. Throat Song
IV. Song of a Name (for a Boy)

Sigur Ros (arr. Stephen Prutsman) / Flugufrelsarinn +
Xploding Plastix / Work from The Order of Things *
Traditional (arr. Triakel / Kronos) / Tusen Tankar (A Thousand Thoughts)  +
Derek Charke / Cercle du Nord III * world premiere
Arvo Part / Fratres

INTERMISSION

Peteris Vasks / Quartet No. 5 *
I. Being Present
II. So Distant…Yet Near
Tanya Tagaq & Kronos Quartet/  Nunavut * world premiere
featuring special guest, Tanya Tagaq, vocals

Tanya Tagaq and Kronos Quartet’s Nunavut was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and Tanya Tagaq by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC, CBC Television, the Canada Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Derek Charke’s Cercle du Nord III and Inuit Throat Song Games were commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by CBC Radio Two and Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique