INCANTATIONS
The New Album from Sirius Quartet
Available on all platforms from Navona Records

Sirius Quartet
Fung Chern Hwei: violin
Gregor Huebner: violin
Sunjay Jayaram: viola
Jeremy Harman: cello

Release Date: January 10, 2025
Catalog #: NV6690
Format: Digital

The Sirius Quartet speaks past the veil in INCANTATIONS, a collection of nine works honoring memory, grief, and the aspect of loss as it appears in our interpersonal and social relationships. The music of INCANTATIONS is a speaking vessel to concentrate the profound loss experienced at the individual and communal level in recent decades into a great beyond, a release of grief for its composers, performers, and listeners alike. Exploring grief as it exists in political, cultural, and familial spaces, the Sirius Quartet commentates on the loss of loved ones as eloquently as it commentates on the loss of shared humanity in the great American political divide, or the devastating loss afflicted by unnecessary war. Pulling from various cultural diasporas, INCANTATIONS teaches a lesson in the universal language of loss, and the unique and beautiful ways we respond and adapt to it.

Watch special visualizer versions of 3 tracks from the new album
Echo Chambers – Composed by Jeremy Harman
Chant pour L’ile Gorée – Composed by Gregor Huebner
Sahasranamam – Composed by Sunjay Jayaram