In this week’s playlist, we share the recordings of our last Micro Composition Project. Our 2022 composers were Caroline Ahn, with “Earth Song”; Jorge Muñiz, with “Niké”; Eric Salazar, with “Cornfields”; and Jared Thompson, with “Incomplete Thought”.

The Dover Quartet rose to international prominence following a sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition, at which they won every prize. Named the Cleveland Quartet Award-winner, and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover Quartet has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world, performing more than 100 concerts in North America in 2018 and 2019

In this week’s playlist, we feature the music of Han Lash. They are associate professor of music in composition at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Their piece, “Forestallings,” a musical response to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D Major, was premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

In honor of Happy Cat Month which is celebrated during the month of September, we are featuring Indy’s Nine Lives Cate Cafe with one of their owners, Kelley Niiyama. We’ll hear Kelley talk with host Salvador all about the cafe and IndyAdopts! in this playlist. You’ll hear great pieces that have cat themes to celebrate.