Cuatro Puntos Ensemble
Cuatro Puntos Ensemble is ensemble in residence for Cuatro Puntos, an organization in Hartford, Connecticut dedicated to intercultural dialogue through the writing, performance, and teaching of music. Cuatro Puntos Ensemble collaborates with local, national, and international guest artists to produce genre-defying and culturally significant concert programing and album recordings. Although primarily made of two violinists, two violists, and a cellist, the ensemble varies in instrumentation and genre as they adapt to the changing needs of modern music making, and as they tackle genres previously unknown to their instruments due to systemic oppression and racism in Western music making . Together they aim for the highest in artistic excellence while centering underrepresented, silenced, and persecuted performing musicians and composers. Cuatro Puntos Ensemble has been reviewed by Fanfare Magazine as having a “great depth of sound” and “virtuostic performance”. They have performed extensively, in their various formats, throughout the United States as well as in Bolivia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Afghanistan. To date they have produced nine albums of varying genres and styles on major international record labels like Métier, Toccata Classics, and Naxos, and are currently signed to the genre-defying label Arkadash Records. They have been included on the soundtrack for films produced in England, Australia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and have been guest lecturers at prestigious universities such as New England Conservatory (Boston), Columbia University (New York), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Germany), and Goldsmiths College (London). The ensemble was founded in 2012 and carries the name Spanish version of their name, "four points", in recognition of our first international partners in Tarija, Bolivia.
Discography:
Sounds of the Silk Road - Arkadash Records 2024
partners: Ameen Mokdad
The Curve, Live from Hartford - Arkadash Records 2024
partners: Ameen Mokdad & Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet
Ji bo sê kes çay (Tea for Three) - Arkadash Records 2023
partners: Mücahit Poyraz & Ameen Mokdad
Through The Eyes of Children - Arkadash Records, 2022
partners: The National Campaign to Stop Violence: Do The Write Thing, Ameen Mokdad
Sounds of Persia - Arkadash Records 2021
partners: Reza Vali, Dariush Saghafi
The Curve - Arkadash Records, 2020
partners: Ameen Mokdad
Centennial Cole - Truth Revolution Records, 2019
Cuatro Puntos Ensemble accompanies Orice Jenkins
Jaipur to Cairo - Métier Records, 2019
partners: Mohamed-Aly Farag, Reza Vali, Gilad Cohen, Sadie Harrison
The Rosegarden of Light - Toccata Classics, 2016
partners: Sadie Harrison, The Afghan Women's Orchestra "Ensemble Zohra", The Junior Ensemble of Traditional Afghan Instruments
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Uncaged - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners: Sadie Harrison, Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet, women artists and poets in Afghanistan
From The Countryside - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
Coming Home: A Hartford Collage -Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners; David Macbride
Contemporary Ukrainian Composers - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners: Cuatro Puntos Chamber Orchestra (Kevin Bishop, conductor); Roksana Smirnova; Anastasia Tikhanovska; Tetiana Kravchenko
Songs of Love & War - Arkadash Records 2024 COMING SOON
partners: Arson Fahim
Sounds of the Silk Road - Arkadash Records 2024
partners: Ameen Mokdad
The Curve, Live from Hartford - Arkadash Records 2024
partners: Ameen Mokdad & Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet
Ji bo sê kes çay (Tea for Three) - Arkadash Records 2023
partners: Mücahit Poyraz & Ameen Mokdad
Through The Eyes of Children - Arkadash Records, 2022
partners: The National Campaign to Stop Violence: Do The Write Thing, Ameen Mokdad
Sounds of Persia - Arkadash Records 2021
partners: Reza Vali, Dariush Saghafi
The Curve - Arkadash Records, 2020
partners: Ameen Mokdad
Centennial Cole - Truth Revolution Records, 2019
Cuatro Puntos Ensemble accompanies Orice Jenkins
Jaipur to Cairo - Métier Records, 2019
partners: Mohamed-Aly Farag, Reza Vali, Gilad Cohen, Sadie Harrison
The Rosegarden of Light - Toccata Classics, 2016
partners: Sadie Harrison, The Afghan Women's Orchestra "Ensemble Zohra", The Junior Ensemble of Traditional Afghan Instruments
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Uncaged - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners: Sadie Harrison, Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet, women artists and poets in Afghanistan
From The Countryside - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
Coming Home: A Hartford Collage -Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners; David Macbride
Contemporary Ukrainian Composers - Arkadash Records 2025 COMING SOON
partners: Cuatro Puntos Chamber Orchestra (Kevin Bishop, conductor); Roksana Smirnova; Anastasia Tikhanovska; Tetiana Kravchenko
Songs of Love & War - Arkadash Records 2024 COMING SOON
partners: Arson Fahim
Great depth of sound... virtuostic performance"
- Fanfare Magazine
Permanent members of Cuatro Puntos Ensemble
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At a time when we are bombarded every day by images of the world in crisis, The Rosegarden of Light is a joyful celebration of musicians who share a fundamental right to express themselves through the universal language of music.”
- Blackmore Vale Magazine, review of The Rosegarden of Light album