Mivos Quartet

The New York-based Mivos Quartet, »one of the boldest and wildest new music ensembles in America« (The Chicago Reader), was founded in 2008 and is committed to contemporary music. It has commissioned or premiered numerous new works and is committed to long-term collaborations with composers of diverse musical aesthetic orientations, including Sam Pluta, Mark Barden, Richard Carrick, George Lewis, Eric Wubbels, Kate So-per, Scott Wollschleger, and Patrick Higgins. The quartet awards two composition prizes: the annual »Mivos/Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize,« designed to support composers at the beginning of their careers, and the »I Creation/Mivos Composition Prize« for composers of Chinese descent. In addition to expanding the string quartet repertoire, the four musicians also develop cross-border projects, for example in multimedia or improvisation, and in collaboration with artists such as slam poet Saul Williams, saxophonists Dan Blake, Ned Rothenberg and Chris Speed, guitarist Timucin Şahin and trumpeter Nate Wooley. The Mivos Quartet has performed at renowned festivals such as the NY Phil Biennial, Wien Modern, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Düsseldorf Asphalt Festival, HellHOT! New Music Festival in Hong Kong and the Shanghai New Music Week, at Música de Agora na Bahia, at the Aldeburgh Festival and at Lo Spirito della Musica di Venezia. In addition, the Mivos Quartet regularly offers workshops, for example at numerous American universities as well as in Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Istanbul. The quartet has released several CDs and DVDs, including Reappearances (2013) and Garden of Diverging Paths (2016) and, with Dan Blake, The Dust Moves (2016).