String Quartet

String Quartet (2025) covers a wide range of introspection on the subject of love.

I.

The first movement, Invocation to St. Maximilian Kolbe, recalls the story of St. Maximilian Kolbe and his self-sacrifice at Auschwitz in 1941, during which he gave his life to set a man free to return to his family - a true act of sacrificing the self for the good of the other.

II.

The second movement is loosely based on the painting of the same name by van Gogh, in which a child is seen yearning for her father's arms.

III.

In Grace, a steady stream of pulse overcomes the quartet. This movement is palindromic and serves as the thematic entry point into the work as a whole.

IV.

Chez le Père Lathuille is loosely based on the painting of the same name by Édouard Manet, in which the subject is infatuated by the lover he pursues.

V.

Revocation of Grace is a reflection on acts of hate and malice, those acts in which the other is sacrificed for the self.