"New music bonding with old images in rich, provocative, and moving ways." - The New York Times
“In the hands of ETHEL, American music is alive and well.” - The Washington Post
CURRENT PROJECTS
SIGNATURE SESSIONS
Celebrating 25 years of an unprecedented artistic legacy, ETHEL tours Signature Sessions— an evening of music that reflects the tone & tenor of a quartet that is truly cut from its own cloth and has inspired a movement to imagine a much broader palette for repertoire & interpretation.
To commemorate this legacy, ETHEL will tour an ever changing program that reflects both their history and their inspiration in the moment.
COLLABORATIONS & SPECIAL PROJECTS
BIO.
Established in NYC in 1998, this quartet of composer-performers—Ralph Farris (viola), Kip Jones (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), and Corin Lee (violin)—fuses uptown panache with downtown genre mashup, ETHEL has released 9 feature albums; guested on 40+ recordings; won a GRAMMY® with jazz legend Kurt Elling; and toured internationally with Todd Rundgren & Joe Jackson.
Driven by a collaborative ethos — a quest for common creative expression, forged in listening and community, ETHEL has premiered over 250 works, Commissions include The Ringling Museum of Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the NEA. Collaborators include Julia Wolfe, Raven Chacon, David Byrne, Gina Gibney, Grant McDonald, Steve Cosson, and Annie Dorsen. Featured on TED Conferences, ABC Radio Australia, New Sounds, Performance Today, Person Place Thing, Weekend Edition, and on soundtracks Dan In Real Life and Deadwood.
ETHEL is in residence at Denison University, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Petrie Court Café.
This project, Documerica is also available upon request and includes projections with the live performance.
TOURING CONFIGURATIONS
Quartet
Persist: Quartet plus flutist Allison Loggins-Hull
*FOR ALL PROJECTS: ETHEL PERFORMS WITH AMPLIFICATION
TOUR DATES.