The Auriga String Quartet - Hillary Kingsley and Erik Rohde, violins,Jacob Tews, viola, and Isaac Pastor-Chermak, violoncello, will be performing works by Elliott Miles McKinley, Joseph Haydn, and Elliott Carter on Monday, September 24th at Alden Memorial Auditorium in Worchester, MA, at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, in the Great Hall. The concert is free and open to the Public. Commissioned by violinistErik Rohdeand the Indiana State University Faculty String Quartet, the McKinley work will also be performed on tour by the Martinu Quartet through October.
McKinley is a recipient of a number of awards and fellowships including aBMI Student Composer Award, a fellowship at theVirginia Center for the Creative Arts, and grants fromMeet the Composer, theAmerican Music Center, and theAmerican Composers Forum. In 2012, his percussion concerto, Four Grooves, won theIndiana State University Contemporary Music Festivals MusicNowcompetition. Among other honors, McKinley was awarded aNew Frontiers for the Arts and Humanitiesgrant from Indiana University, received two Indiana University Faculty Research Grants, and a Roger Williams University Foundation Grant. Also active as a performer and improviser, McKinley is a founding member ofearWorm, an electroacoustic improvisation ensemble of composer-performers.