Time is how you spend your love
DOMNIQ, Marmen Quartet & Samuel Adams
A chamber music programme for percussion and string quartet about time, repetition and devotion.
Combined Creatives produces Time is how you spend your love in coproduction with the String Quartet Biënnale. In it, DOMNIQ, the Marmen Quartet and composer Samuel Adams explore the many ways time and space can inhabit a concert.
The programme moves from core repertoire for string quartet and solo percussion to moments where the two come together. At its centre are two works by Samuel Adams: Sundial, a dreamlike sonic landscape, and Devotions, an instrumental cantata in seven movements drawing on Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. Alongside them is music by Haydn, Feldman, Beethoven, Cassandra Miller, Gity Razaz and DOMNIQ.
Repetition runs through the evening, from the small motif Beethoven repeats 48 times in the Scherzo of his Sixteenth String Quartet to the returning gestures in Adams' music.
Full recording
String Quartet Biënnale 2026
Practical info
Line-up: percussion and string quartet
Works by Joseph Haydn, Morton Feldman, Samuel Adams, Ludwig van Beethoven, DOMNIQ, Cassandra Miller and Gity Razaz
Recorded at the String Quartet Biënnale 2026
Production: Combined Creatives, in coproduction with the String Quartet Biënnale
Tour
Feb 25, 2027 — Blackrock Castle, Cork
Feb 27, 2027 — MTU Cork School of Music, Cork
Feb 28, 2027 — Aula Maxima, University College Cork (Irish premiere of Adams' Sundial)
Mar 17, 2027 — Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (with Samuel Adams)
Mar 18, 2027 — Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen (with Samuel Adams)
Mar 19, 2027 — Muziekgebouw Eindhoven (with Samuel Adams)
Cast & Crew
Percussion - DOMNIQ
String quartet - Marmen Quartet
Composer - Samuel Adams
Light design - Floriaan Ganzevoort
Production - Combined Creatives
Coproduction - String Quartet Biënnale
Images
Photos © Rob van Dam
Supported by
Time is how you spend your love is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL and Cultuur Eindhoven.
