How we spent the night is dedicated to the Rusquartet and commissioned by the Eduard van Beinum Foundation, at the request of the Orlando Festival for the celebration of its 40th edition in 2022.

My second and third string quartets were written during the pandemic that began in 2020, and explicitly reflected the experience of lockdown. The second quartet, On the streets and in the sky, contrasted the anxiety of daily life with the beauty of birdsong and unpolluted skies. The third, Toge...