Supporting Affinity Quartet

“My partner Martin and I are prodigious consumers of classical music, because in a world with an increasingly short concentration span, classical music feels intensely human – it explores every aspect of human emotion and experience, it is authentically creative and so much of it is pure innovation over centuries. Supporting Affinity quartet brings us close to something intense and beautiful – we love knowing these musicians, being near them sharpens our insight into the music we love, and new music we are learning to love. Composition of the music is one thing, but each act of performance brings new layers of interpretation and technique which makes it continually new and surprising. Chamber music is a living art form – it preserves, burnishes and re-interprets the glorious achievements of the western canon of classical music, but importantly, a quartet is an artform which is infinitely adaptable to any expression and continues to interpret and explain our world back to us with complexity and nuance. Artists interpret and explain our world.  Art is important in the same way that sport is, it focusses our attention on the superb potential of the physical body and the excitement, camaraderie and tribalism of immersion in performance. If we want a world which is not simply shallow and transactional (as it increasingly is) we need to contribute to culture – either by making it, or by supporting those that do.”

Image details: Patrick Kennedy and Rachel Nolan in their office space in Fitzroy where Affinity Quartert plays for audiences up to one hundred people.

Affinity Quartet at Kennedy Nolan Architects