• Emily Howard
  • Rhomb in Silhouette (2024)
    (Version for String Quartet and Percussion)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)

Commissioned and Produced by Factory International, Manchester

Commissioner exclusivity applies

  • 4perc/str4tet
  • 25 min
    • 17th July 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom
    • 18th July 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Programme Note

Rhomb in Silhouette begins in stillness, unhurried, a slow unfolding that gradually quickens, whorling with intense energy before patiently subsiding into silence. Strings breathe life into an ever-ascending melody, tracing a diagonal path across the rhomb. Metallic resonances surround the strings, summoning the sound of the rhomb from within.

Rhomb in Silhouette responds to a brass sculpture Rhombus, 2017, developed by the artist Germaine Kruip in collaboration with Thein Brass.

Emily Howard, March 2025