ACCLAIMED COMPOSER OSVALDO GOLIJOV UNVEILS ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM EVER YOURS VIA PHENOTYPIC RECORDINGS

COLLECTION BRINGS TOGETHER GOLIJOV’S EVER YOURS, TINTYPE, K’VAKARAT AND ESPERANZA

IN MEMORY OF LONGTIME FRIEND AND VIOLINIST GEOFF NUTTALL

January 16, 2026—Acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov today unveils his anticipated new album, Ever Yours, via Phenotypic Recordings —listen/share here.

For more than three decades, Golijov has been expanding the expressive reach of chamber music. His new album, comprised of four works—Ever Yours, Tintype, K’vakarat, and Esperanza—traces a throughline in his creative life: friendship, hope, memory, and faith as lived through music.

The title work, Ever Yours (2022, revised 2025), was Golijov’s final composition written for violinist Geoff Nuttall, his longtime collaborator and co-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Originally composed for string octet and commissioned by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, the piece draws inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo—always signed “Ever Yours”—and from Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 (“Quinten”), Nuttall’s most cherished work. “Starbound,” the second movement of the piece, landed in mid-December as the collection’s first single.

Golijov reflects, “Geoff was the first person to understand what I was trying to say as a composer. My brother in music and life. I wrote Ever Yours, primarily, as a conversation about music, Haydn, friendship, life, and death, between Geoff and me. Geoff is now gone, and his (and my) beloved St. Lawrence String Quartet, which he co-founded and led for more than 30 years, has disbanded. But the idea of a conversation between friends continues to live in this new version of the work.”

Recorded after Nuttall’s passing, the revised version brings together the Arethusa Quartet and the Animato Quartet with double bassist Nicholas Schwartz, under the guidance of pianist and longtime collaborator Stephen Prutsman. Golijov describes the sessions as both joyful and moving, continuing the shared musical language of the pair.

Tintype (2024) was written in response to Oren Rudavsky’s documentary Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire. Inspired by dreamlike sequences in which Wiesel remembers his father, the work unfolds in three movements that move between memory, lyrical reflection, and expressions of belief through the prayer “Ani Maamin.” The documentary will broadcast on PBS as part of the American Masters series on January 27—more information can be found here.

K’vakarat (1993), drawn from the Yom Kippur liturgy, reaches back to Golijov’s early career. Originally written for cantor Misha Alexandrovich and the Kronos Quartet and later included in The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, it appears here in a new arrangement by violist Barry Shiffman for viola and string quartet, highlighting its intimate, vocal quality.

Also featured is Esperanza (2025), a work of renewal and quiet joy originally composed as the love theme for Francis Ford Coppola’s film Megalopolis. Built around a four-note motif that rises repeatedly before resolving, the chamber version on the album was created spontaneously during the Amsterdam sessions as a way to thank the musicians.

Taken together, Ever Yours offers a portrait of Golijov’s music as a living, ongoing journey; these four works speak to one another across time, showing a composer deeply engaged with belief, reflection, and connection. The album reaffirms Golijov’s commitment to chamber music as a space for human connection, where devotion, loss and renewal live on through sound.

ABOUT OSVALDO GOLIJOV

Osvaldo Golijov’s works include the St. Mark Passion; the opera Ainadamar; Azul, a cello concerto; The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for clarinet and string quartet; the song cycles Ayre and Falling Out of Time; and the soundtracks for Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro, Youth Without Youth, and Megalopolis. His most recent works include LAIꓘA, written for Anthony Roth Costanzo and the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble; The Given Note, a fantasy for violinist Johnny Gandelsman and The Knights; and Megalopolis Suite for Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1960, and lived in Jerusalem before immigrating to the U.S. in 1986. He is the Composer-in-Residence at The College of the Holy Cross.

ABOUT PHENOTYPIC RECORDINGS

Phenotypic Recordings brings to light new music by world-class musicians and innovative composers, with a focus on music that highlights the most important issues facing the world today. As another way of amplifying artistic voices, Pheno donates its revenue from streaming and downloads to support humanitarian causes identified by the artists making the music.

CREDITS

Featuring: Balourdet Quartet, EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks & Piero Guimaraes

Featuring: Arethusa Quartet, Animato Quartet, Barry Shiffman & Nicholas Schwartz

Arethusa Quartet
Daniel Rowland, Violin
Floor Le Coultre, Violin
Dana Zemtsov, Viola
Maja Bogdanovic, Cello

Animato Quartet
Tim Brackman, Violin
Inga Våga Gaustad, Violin
Elisa Karen Tavenier, Viola
Pieter de Koe, Cello

Barry Shiffman, Viola on Tintype and K’vakarat

Nicholas Schwartz, Double Bass on Ever Yours and Esperanza

Produced & Edited by Stephen Prutsman

Engineered by Joeri Saal at Studio 150 Bethlehemkerk, Amsterdam

Mixed by Alejandro Venguer

Mastered by Oscar Zambrano at Zampol Productions

Album Art & Graphic Design: Chris Kornmann, Spit + Image

Special thanks: Stephen Prutsman, Owen Dalby, Lesley Robertson, Christopher Costanza, the Telegraph Quartet, Johnny Gandelsman, Jonathan Brill, Cristin Canterbury Bagnall, Yasmin Hilberdink, Livia Sohn, Jack Nuttall, and Ellis Nuttall

In memory of Geoff Nuttall

For more information, please contact Krista Williams, Christopher Emond or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.

TRACK LIST
EVER YOURS

Ever Yours
I. Sowing Fifths
II. Starbound
III. You Reap What You Sow
IV. Papa

Tintype
V. Hebrew Melody
VI. Elie dreams of his father
VII. Ani Maamin

K’vakarat
VIII. K’vakarat

Esperanza
IX. Esperanza—Love Theme from the Soundtrack for Megalopolis

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