Mizzou student Henry Rusten, a composer and multi-instrumentalist, was recently featured in Cape Girardeau’s Southeast Missourian and on the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s SLSO Stories blog. Rusten’s piece Paradigm Shift for string quartet will be given its world premiere performance at 7:30 p.m. March 6 as part of the SLSO’s “Live at the Sheldon” chamber-music series.  

The series is an ongoing collaboration between the SLSO and the Mizzou New Music Initiative. The March 6 concert, held at The Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, is titled “Echoes of Home” and curated by the orchestra’s violinist Celeste Golden Andrews and cellist Melissa Brooks.

Henry tells SLSO Stories that Paradigm Shift “consists of a four-note theme, which is utilized with various keys, instruments, and harmonic surroundings to create a sense of building throughout the piece until a more uncovered and homelike quiet consonant harmony at the end.”

You can read the Southeast Missourian feature here and the SLSO Stories interview here.

Tickets to the concert can be purchased here.

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