Brooklyn Rider, the exciting contemporary string quartet, performs an innovative interpretation of Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor at the ensemble’s George Mason University Center of the Arts debut. The program of works from their latest CD, “Dominant Curve,” plunges onward toward the future with an electro-acoustic arrangement by Brooklyn composer Justin Messina of “In a Landscape” by John Cage and explorations into the fresh insights of Japanese composer Kojiro Umezaki’s “Cycles,” Uzbekistan native Dmitri Yanov Yanovski’s “al niente” and Colin Jacobsen’s “Achilles’ Heel.”

Violinist Jacobsen and his brother Eric, cellist, were students at Juilliard School when they met Curtis Institute student violinist Johnny Gandelsman and violist Nicholas Cords. After playing together in an orchestra that met out of school during the summer, they quickly discovered mutual interests and formed the quartet Wild Ginger.