The Mivos Quartet presents three sets at Big Ears 2025

Since its founding in 2008, the Mivos Quartet has been passionately dedicated to commissioning and performing new works for diverse audiences around the world. Going further than building the string quartet repertoire, Mivos expands the capabilities of the medium by working with artists from varied, overlapping traditions and genres. In addition to performing newly composed works, the quartet regularly presents multimedia projects and performs improvised music. Recent works commissioned and written for Mivos included pieces by Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Halvorson, and Terry Riley...and collaborations with artists such as Cecile McLorin Salvant, Claire Chase, and others. At Big Ears 2025, the quartet will perform three sets: a collaboration with Ambrose Akinmusire, Mivos's own set, featuring music by Henry Threadgill, George Lewis, and Ingrid Laubrock, and a performance of Terry Riley's The Holy Liftoff with flutist, Claire Chase. Learn more about each of these performances in Melony Dodson's interview with cellist, Nathan Watts.

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