Songbird
Monday, December 8, 2025 at 7:30pm
First Congregational Church
enSRQ’s second concert of the season takes flight with music that sings, soars, and stirs. Reiko Füting’s procession–process:peace weaves fragments of the dona nobis pacem into a meditative journey for strings, clarinet, and piano. Juri Seo’s Songbird lets a lush ensemble of strings bloom with lyrical elegance and subtle dissonance. The evening also features a world premiere from Diallo Banks, written for enSRQ, alongside Michael Ippolito’s Songlines, a string quartet inspired by ancient narratives and imagined journeys.
Program

Reiko Füting
Germanb. 1970
procession- process:peace (dona nobis pacem)
Year: 2017Duration: 10'
Samantha Bennettviolin
Calvin Falwellclarinet
Wesley Ducotepiano

Juri Seo
South Koreanb. 1981
Songbird
Year: 2021Duration: 13'
Samantha Bennettviolin
Peter Ayusoviola
Jason Callowaycello

Diallo Banks
PREMIERECOMMISSION
New Work
Year: 2025Duration: 10'
Samantha Bennettviolin

Michael Ippolito
String Quartet No. 3 Songlines
Year: 2012Duration: 11'
Samantha Bennettviolin