String Quartet No. 1

Between November 2006 and June 2007, inclusive, I wrote a piece for string quartet. It has a duration of about 15 minutes and is split into four movements, roughly following the classical sonata-allegro format. I've submitted it to the MMEA compositional contest under the small ensemble category and I'm now awaiting results.

The first movement was performed by the chamber orchestra at my school for the 2007 spring performance. I actually only had the first movement completed by that time and had to frantically finish the final three in the following weeks amid AP tests.

I managed to get a quartet together right before school was over for the year, and recorded a decent copy considering it was mostly sight reading.

I have the printable scores online for each movement.

Violin 1	Violin 1	Violin 1	Violin 1
Violin 2	Violin 2	Violin 2	Violin 2
Viola	Viola	Viola	Viola
Cello	Cello	Cello	Cello

There are two ways you can listen to my quartet right now, by MIDI files which are very small but sound terrible because it is the computer attempting to try to play the notes, or the recording of the quartet I put togethet. The MIDI files per movement are:

1. Moderato - Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Scherzo
4. Allegro Moderato

For recordings by real people, you can download the entire thing as an MP3 files with all four movements. Although, beware that it is 13.2MB, and it will be a slower download because my server can only upload 45KB/s maximum.

If these are to be performed anywhere by anyone, all that I ask is for someone to contact me because I'd like to know that it is being performed.