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David Wilson

baroque violin

Elizabeth Blumenstock

baroque violin

Roy Whelden

viola da gamba

David Morris

baroque cello

The Galax Quartet is modeled after an early version of the string quartet — two violins, cello and viola da gamba — developed by the eighteenth century composer and viola da gamba virtuoso, Carl Friedrich Abel. Since 2005, the Galax Quartet has been commissioning new music, exploring early classical works, and performing these in unexpected collaborations.

The quartet has performed new quartets (Marc Mellits, Carl Stone, Dan Becker), often in premieres; played Bach's Art of the Fugue alongside Hubble Telescope images at the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival; recorded film music by Belinda Reynolds for PBS (The New Metropolis); accompanied computer images from virtual worlds with mathematician and sci-fi writer Rudy Rucker; created a substantial new body of song cycles with the contralto Karen Clark; and more...

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