John McGuire – Music for Double String Trio

John McGuire: Playground & Double Bars
Musicians: Cristina Ardelean & Lola Rubio: Violin, Axel Porath & Laura Hovestadt: Viola, Adya Khanna Fontenla & Burkart Zeller: Violoncello
Axel Lindner: Conductor

Over the past ten years, John McGuire has composed three pieces for two string trios: Jump Cuts (2012), Double Bars (2017) and Playground (2021). The pieces realise compositional principles that McGuire has continued to develop over the course of his work and that can be seen as a synthesis of aspects of European serialism and American minimalism.

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of composer John McGuire, GIMIK e.V. organised a concert with the world premieres of Jump Cuts and Double Bars.

The concert took place on Friday 16 June at the Kunststation Sankt Peter, and the live recording was broadcast on Thursday 18 August at 0.00 am as part of the New Music programme on Deutschland Radio Kultur, presented by Hubert Steins.

Artistic direction and organisation: Bernd Härpfer, Siegfried Koepf, Axel Lindner
Collaboration: Hendrik Manook
Graphic Design: Pascal Fendrich, Siegfried Koepf
Photos: Sonja Werner

The project was funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Kunststiftung NRW.