Rasa String Quartet & Brian Shankar Adler - Redefining Home

When:
Thursday, May 15, 2025 7:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Boston Athenaeum
10 - 1/2 Beacon St
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$35

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Categories:
Music

Event website:
https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2KUm000004pJMT

Multidisciplinary percussionist Brian Shankar Adler and the Rasa String Quartet present: Redefining Home, a concert that celebrates each artists’ musical roots. Spanning from evocative Indian ragas and mysterious Argentine tangos to spirited Celtic fiddle tunes, this collaboration evokes the feelings of home and comfort inherent in our earliest musical memories, while also exploring the rhythmic connection across a wide array of genres. The program culminates in the world premiere of a new work for string quartet and percussion by Brian Shankar Adler, inspired by this unique collaboration.


ABOUT THE PERFORMERS


The Boston-based Rasa String Quartet explores the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another. They are winners of the 2022 AEMC Competition in Italy, the 2021 Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Competition, the 2020 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, and were the 2022-23 ensemble in residence at Phillips Exeter Academy. Notable performances include the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Celebrity Series of Boston, Rockport Music, and the Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, among others. The quartet can be found collaborating with the preeminent folk musicians of today, performing at venues and festivals around the country, and participating in artistic and educational residencies at various institutions. By exploring the connection between music and storytelling at the heart of folk traditions, Rasa String Quartet delivers fresh, engaging performances that blend classical elegance with folk whimsy, celebrate global traditions, and elevate lesser-known composers.


Brian Shankar Adler is an interdisciplinary percussionist and composer. Described as "a polyrhythmic force… New York City gritty yet still somehow capable of evoking the delicacy of a summer breeze…” (JazzTimes), his work transcends the terrain between genre and geographic region, asking: how can we find connection through rhythm? Adler has performed in caves, forests and adjacent glacial ice fields as well as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and The Stone. He has been recorded on over fifty albums including his solo works: For a Gallery on the Moon (Chant Records, 2020), Fourth Dimension (Chant Records, 2019), and his recent collaboration: Air Space: Cricket Cipher (Adhyâropa Records, 2024).


TICKETS & TICKET POLICIES

Tickets are required for this event. Tickets for members and their guests are $20. Visitor tickets are $35 and include first floor admission.


Tickets are refundable if canceled up to 48 hours before the event.


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