BU Center for New Music: Mivos String Quartet

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music's Center for New Music presents Mivos String Quartet in residency from April 5-7, where the group will work with students and then present a concert of works written specially for them by BU students along with the work of BU Center for New Music's composer in residence Jessie Montgomery.

Since its founding in 2008, the Mivos Quartet has performed and closely collaborated with established and emerging composers representing a broad range of demographics and compositional aesthetics. Mivos commissions and premieres new music for string quartet, while also sustainably nurturing the repertoire by offering repeat performances of new works in their regular touring season.

Mivos has performed to critical acclaim at Aldeburgh Music (UK), Carnegie Hall (USA), Lincoln Center (USA), Elbphilharmonie (Germany), Shanghai New Music Week (China), Música de Agora na Bahia (Brazil), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Lo Spirito della musica di Venezia (Italy), Skaņu Mežs (Latvia), Festival Internacional Chihuahua (México), Wien Moderne (Austria), Hong Kong Arts Center, and the Library of Congress (USA). In recognition of their work in championing new music, the quartet has received the Interpretation Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, as well as the 2019 Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize for Interpreters of Contemporary Music.

This event is free and open to the public.