For composer Thomas Daniel Schlee the ?intimate sound possibilities of the string quartet? have the potential ?to formulate an albeit ?only? individual solution to the somewhat forlorn condition of new art music within society that we are unfortunately experiencing today.? Schlee?s Fourth String Quartet opens with a pure C major sound out of which he develops a harmonically free band of voices: ?The pure as a source not pleasing?! After a melodically dominating episode and a continuation of the ?swinging tone-motion from the beginning? a thematically solidified section follows. It is met by a second more extensive melodic episode followed by a ?nightly scene?. Coming full circle the opening music of the piece finds its continuation leading into a lament ? first articulated by the ensemble then finally as ?the viola?s long forlorn search for the melody symbolizing a farewell.?

Thomas Simaku is an Albanian-born British composer whose music has been reaching audiences all over Europe and the USA for over a decade.The sheet music for String Quartet No. 4 - Parts hasbeen beautifully composed for String Quartet for Intermediate to Advanced level.

Plappergeister - String Quartet No. 5 by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen (2009). Written for Quartetto di Cremona with support fromthe Danish States Arts Foundation Parts available: WH31122A

Set of parts for Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen's String Quartet No.6 (2013). Dedicated to Rahel Marie Dorothea Urton and written for Quartetto di Cremona.

Thomas Simaku's String Quartet No.5 (2015). Parts. Dedicated to Terry Holmes. Commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. World Premiere: Quatuor Diotima 28 November 2015.

Thomas Adèsâ??s second work for string quartet The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade Morning Dew. A sombre third movement Days is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16.