Mivos Quartet Album Release

Monday, October 27, 2025 - 8:00 pm

Roulette
509 Atlantic Avenue
(Corner of Third Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11217

The Mivos Quartet, “One of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles” (The Chicago Reader), celebrates their newest album release on Sideband Records featuring four recently commissioned works by Ambrose Akinmusire, Michaela Catranis, George Lewis, and Jeffrey Mumford. For over 15 years Mivos has championed extraordinary and diverse new music to audiences around the world; these four works are a testament to the breadth and depth of contemporary string quartet writing. Each piece was written for the quartet, and the album is the first commercially available recording of each work.

Mivos Quartet
Olivia De Prato violin
William Overcash violin
Victor Lowrie Tafoya viola
Nathan Watts cello

Caitlin Jones (USA) / Mivos Quartet (USA/I) / Ensemble Hopper (B)

PORGY & BESS
Riemergasse 11
A-1010 Wien

Program

Caitlin Jones (Marimba)
• Thinking Songs for marimba solo

Mivos Quartet
• Moving Houses for string quartet
• Entasis for string quartet

Ensemble Hopper (with Julie Vercauteren, soprano; Francois Deppe, conductor)
• Aquifères for chamber ensemble
• Six Arpeggiators for chamber ensemble
• La Parole Seule for soprano and chamber ensemble

A.I.R SHOWCASE VI. – IVAR ROBAN KRIŽIĆ- WHEREWHEN Collective

Westbahnstudios gemeinnützige GmbH
Preysinggasse 7-9/1
1150 Wien

Start: 20:00

The WhereWhen Collective is a body working at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and performative practice. In shifting constellations, the collective brings together musicians and artists from the fields of jazz, new music, electroacoustics, and free improvisation.

Current members include: Nikola Vuković (trumpet), Tobias Meissl (vibraphone), Maiken Beer (cello), Olivia De Prato (violin), Victor Lowrie (viola), Kasho Chualan (piano/electronics), Christof Ressi (electronics), and Ivar Roban Križić (double bass/text).

What can a collective body do? Can it transcend the sum of its individual components? Can it turn a writhing, undulating mass of flesh, bone, and synapses into something entirely new? In preparing this performance we became a collective body, with a permeable membrane that allows entry, exchange, and constant renewal. By joining us here and now, you become part of our body—a new multi-functional limb sprouting at the periphery, in constant exchange with every other element of the structure. Can you sense the whole from where you are? Can you sense the process of integration? How does it feel to be a collective body?

The project is supported by a composition stipend from the City of Vienna (MA-7) and by the SKE Fonds.

Anzû Quartet 

Sep 11 Thursday, 2025 - 8:30pm

KM28

Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin  

Olivia De Prato (violin), Louise McMonagle (cello), Ken Thomson (clarinet) & Karl Larson (piano) 

Anzû Quartet perform a new program featuring works by Aftab Darvishi, Mario Diaz de Leon, and Anna Webber.

Program

Mario Diaz De Leon, Tree of Life (2024)

Aftab Darvishi, to... Serenity (2022)

Anna Webber, adjust (2022)

Formed in 2020, the Anzû Quartet pays homage to Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps by actively commissioning and performing new works for this iconic instrumentation. Their debut album, adjust, was released on Cantaloupe Music in April 2025.  The name anzû refers to a massive, fire and water breathing bird found in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology. In these ancient texts, Anzû is linked to death and destruction as well as birth and creation, reflecting the juxtaposing themes of calamity and salvation often expressed through birdsong in Messiaen's quartet. 

Feet Become Ears Vol. 5- Anzû Quartet & Anthony Romaniuk

Wednesday, 10. Sep 2025 - 20:00

Kulturnhalle Leipzig

The Anzû Quartet is a New York-based ensemble dedicated entirely to the music of today. Inspired by Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps, it commissions and performs new works for the same instrumentation as well as reinterpretations of the original. Since its foundation in 2020, Anzû has performed in Europe and the USA, working with composers such as Anna Webber and Mario Diaz de Leon. The members-Olivia De Prato, Ashley Bathgate, Ken Thomson and Karl Larson-are leading voices in the contemporary music scene, shaping formations such as Bang on a Can All-Stars, Mivos Quartet and Ensemble Signal.
Anthony Romaniuk is a genre-fluid pianist whose musical voice combines his classical training with a love of jazz, early music, improvisation and experimental sounds. Equally confident on piano, harpsichord or synthesizer, he performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Vox Luminis, among others. His acclaimed solo albums on Alpha Classics explore the boundaries of the classical repertoire through bold programming and sonic diversity.
www.feetbecomeears.com

V/O Duo (Viola Yip and Olivia De Prato)

19. OKTOBER 2025 - 20h

20:00

Das Projekt „V/O“ ist eine neue Zusammenarbeit zwischen Viola Yip und Olivia De Prato für verstärkte Violine, Feedback-Elektronik und Objekte. Das Projekt V/O erforscht spezifische musikalische Momente, die aus den materialistischen und performativen Beziehungen zwischen Körper, Instrumenten und dem umgebenden Raum entstehen und deren komplexes performatives Netzwerk durch Elektronik sichtbar machen.

Yip nutzt Elektronik, um unsichtbare Körperlichkeiten unserer Alltagsgegenstände klanglich sichtbar zu machen. Indem sie verschiedene Resonanzobjekte zwischen Mikrofon und Lautsprecher einbringt und diese Beziehungen durch ihre Aktionen stört, entstehen unterschiedliche Tonhöhen und Klangtexturen. Kontrapunktisch kreiert De Prato eine Klangpalette, die sich aus den physischen Beziehungen zwischen Bogen, Saiten, Resonanzboden und ihrem Körper ergibt, in Verbindung mit ihrem virtuosen musikalischen Gespür auf ihrer verstärkten und präparierten Violine.

Olivia De Prato | verstärkte Violine
Viola Yip | Feedback Elektronik, Objekte

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:30 PM Zankel Hall

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s most daring and multifaceted creation yet, Ogresse is a musical and theatrical tour-de-force by an incomparable artist. It is a haunting, wryly humorous, and “staggeringly original” (The Wall Street Journal) work that blends jazz, chamber music, opera, art song, and many generations of storytelling traditions into a whole that feels at once ancient and cutting edge. Featuring Salvant’s original libretto, costumes of her own design, visual projections, and an ensemble led by Darcy James Argue, this is a true passion project that continues to evolve with each performance. Take advantage of the opportunity to experience it in the dynamic Zankel Hall.

regulärer Einlass: 19:00 Uhr
Kartenpreise: 10€/7€ (ermäßigt)
nur Barzahlung möglich!

echoraum
Sechshauser Straße 66
A-1150 Wien

Telefon: +43 (0) 1 812 02 09 30
E-Mail: echo@echoraum.at

Music by Ambrose Akinmusire, George Lewis, Hannah Kendall and Alec Hall

»Travelogue: a tale of three cities«

Dienstag 6Mai 2025

19:30 – ca. 21:30 Uhr

Mozart-Saal

KARTEN KAUFEN

BESETZUNG

Danny Grissett Trio

Danny Grissett, Klavier

Vicente Archer, Kontrabass

Francesco Ciniglio, Schlagzeug

Mivos Quartet

Olivia De Prato, Violine

Adam Woodward, Violine

Victor Lowrie Tafoya, Viola

Nathan Watts, Violoncello

Melissa Danas, Horn

Wolfgang Lindenthal, Flöte

N.N., Oboe

Tuesday April 1, 2025 at 07:30 pm

General Public: $48
Museum Members: $41
34 or under: $24

Bourgie Hall presents

Considered one of the most progressive and dynamic new music ensembles, the Mivos Quartet carries on the legacy of the Kronos Quartet. After reworking Steve Reich’s music for string quartet with the composer and then recording it for Deutsche Grammophon, the Mivos Quartet will perform the entire works for this ensemble by one of the pioneers of minimalist music.

Mivos Quartet
Olivia de Prato, violin
Adam Woodward, violin
Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Nathan Watts, cello

Steve REICH
WTC 9/11
Triple Quartet
Different Trains

Sunday, March 9, 2025

• 8:00 PM 9:00 PM

• Roulette Intermedium509 Atlantic AvenueBrooklynNY (map)

Formed based on Olivier Messiaen’s seminal Quartet for the End of Time, The Anzû Quartet is comprised of musicians from Bang on a Can, Mivos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and Bearthoven. The group is dedicated to commissioning and premiering new works of unique instrumentation.

After touring US and Europe, with Anna Webber’s Adjust, the Anzû Quartet will make an NYC premiere of works by Ryan Carter, Mario Diaz de Leon, and Anna Webber.

One of the first major pieces Webber has composed for an ensemble, Adjust tackles the meeting of the composed and improvised music worlds in a thrilling five-part work.

Diaz de Leon’s Tree of Life is an ecotheologically motivated response to the Quatuor pour la fin du temps inspired by Rev 22:1-2.

Ryan Carter’s Frictionless Objects incorporates wild extended techniques and expanded tonality in an emotive ten-minute work.

March 05, 2025, 7:30 PM

Camp Concert Hall

7:30 PM 9:00 PM

• Modlin Center for the Arts (map)

The Anzû Quartet performs recent works by Anna Webber and Ryan Carter alongside the world premiere performance of Mario Diaz de Leon’s Tree of Life at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Center.

20:00 UHR

Kulturkirche Epiphanias Feudenheim

Mivos Quartet

February 21. 2025

Constellation, 3111 N. Western Ave, Chicago

8:30pm - $20

Mivos Quartet

The Mivos Quartet is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting diverse new music to international audiences. The quartet, founded in 2008, commissions and premieres new repertoire for string quartet, and is dedicated to creative collaborations with a wide variety of artists. Mivos maintains an active international performance schedule, with regular appearances as ensemble-in-residence at summer festivals. Mivos takes part in many educational residencies at universities and summer festivals, working with young performers and composers to develop their craft, technical skis and artistic expression. The quartet also runs two composition prizes to help discover and promote emerging composers in the US and abroad. Beyond these activities, Mivos collaborates regularly with guest artists, presents multimedia projects, and performs improvised music. www.mivosquartet.com

Olivia De Prato and Maya Bennardo, violins, Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola, and Nathan Watts, cello

Ambrose Akinmusire: May Our Centers Hold (2023) 12’

Ingrid Laubrock,  Ashes (2022) 15’

Alex Mincek, Pendulum XI: “Strato” for electric guitar and string quartet (2021) 25′

With special guest Nadav Lev, electric guitar

Ian Antonio plays Jürg Frey

Ian Antonio is a percussionist who specializes in the creation, development, and realization of new and recent musical works. He is a co-director of the composer/performer collective Wet Ink and the percussion ensemble Talujon, and for many years was also a member of Yarn/Wire and Zs. With these ensembles and others, Ian performs around the world at venues both big and small. His playing can be heard on dozens of albums released by a wide range of record labels. Ian lives in Ypsilanti, MI and teaches percussion at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Program

Glafsered I (2002) by Jürg Frey

Tender Outermost Melodies (2022) by Jürg Frey (world premiere)

MIVOS QUARTET @ REAKTOR WIEN

19:30 Uhr

Programm

Alvin Lucier: Disappearances, 1994 (9min)

Rebecca Saunders: Unbreathed, 2017 (18min)

Mark Andre: Sieben Stücke für Streichquartett, 2022 (7min)

Joel Durand: Quatuor à cordes no.3, 2023 (25min)

Eintrittskarten an der Abendkassa | € 15,- / 10,-
Abovorteil | Ö1 Club
Nur Bargeld

REAKTOR
Geblergasse 40
1170 Wien

HONEY FROM A WINTER’S STONE
Ambrose Akinmusire Trumpet, Kokayi Voice, Sam Harris Piano, Justin Brown Drums, Mivos Quartet

2024 November 11, Monday at 20h00

80 BD DE ROCHECHOUART
75018 PARIS

HONEY FROM A WINTER’S STONE
Ambrose Akinmusire Trompete, Kokayi Gesang, Sam Harris Klavier, Justin Brown Schlagzeug, Mivos Quartet Streichquartett

18:00h

Festspielhaus St. Pölten

Kulturbezirk 2

St. Pölten, Austria

HONEY FROM A WINTER’S STONE
Ambrose Akinmusire Trompet, Kokayi Voice, Sam Harris Piano, Justin Brown Drums, Mivos Quartet

Rockit is an adventurous festival brimming with blends of genres and styles, from jazz to alternative rock. On the 9th of November 2024 the sixth edition of the festival takes place in De Oosterpoort in Groningen. On six stages, SPOT Groningen and NN North Sea Jazz present established names and rising stars from the jazzscene and related styles. What connects the artists is the adventurous, progressive way in which they incorporate different styles into their music.

HONEY FROM A WINTER’S STONE
Ambrose Akinmusire Trumpet, Kokayi Voice, Sam Harris Piano, Justin Brown Drums, Mivos Quartet

21:30h

Guimaraes, PT | Guimaraes Jazz,

October 28, 2024, 7:30PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018

The acclaimed Mivos Quartet will present a series of premieres at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, featuring electro-acoustic compositions by Ambrose Akinmusire, David Bird, Michaela Catranis, and Alec Hall.

KAMMERMUSIK

19:00

Mivos Quartet

Olivia De Prato Violine

Maya Bennardo Violine

Victor Lowrie Tafoya Viola

Nathan Watts Violoncello

Georg Vogel Claviton

Ingrid Laubrock, Georg Vogel, Annesley Black, Michaela Catranis, Alex Mincek

Gegründet 2008 in New York gehört das Mivos Quartet zu den führenden Ensembles für Neue Musik. Anliegen ist die Erweiterung des Streichquartett-Repertoires, aber auch die Zusammenarbeit mit Gastkünstler*innen, Multimedia-Projekte und Aufführungen improvisierter Musik. Der Jazz-Pianist, Komponist und Instrumentenbauer Georg Vogel befasste sich intensiv mit alternativen Stimmungen von Tasteninstrumenten und mit Naturintervallen jenseits des Quint-Terz-Systems. Sein Werk für das Mivos Quartet bezieht das selbstgebaute Claviton mit 31 Stufen pro Oktave in die Improvisation mit ein.

Mivos Quartet at Moderne Muziek Nijmegen

16:00h

Programma
Alex Mincek – String Quartet No. 3. “lift-tilt-filter-split”  (2010)
Ambrose Akinmusire – “May Our Centers Hold” (2023) (Mivos/ECLAT Festival commission )
Ingrid Laubrock – “Ashes” (Mivos/Kanter Prize Winner 2022)
Michaela Catranis – “Luminous animal” (2020, Mivos and Fondation Royaumont commission)

De concerten vinden plaats op zondagmiddagen in Galerie Marzee. Adres: Lage Markt 3, 6511 VK Nijmegen telefoon 024 3229670 e-mail podiummarzee@modernemuziek.nl.

21:45h

Wiener Musikverein, Großer Saal
Musikvereinsplatz 1, 1010 Wien

PROGRAMM

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007)
YLEM für 19 oder mehr Spieler (1972)

MITWIRKENDE

œnm . œsterreichisches ensemble fuer neue musik

DIRIGENT

Rupert Huber. Musikalische Einstudierung

Novalis Festival

7th edition

October 8-10.2024

Kulturni Centar Osijek, Croatia

Guest Composers
Jessie Marino
Mladen Tarbuk
Marko Ciciliani

Guest Ensembles and Performers
Papandopulo Kvartet
Aleksandar Gabrys
Festival Quartet (Szilard Benes, Olivia De Prato, Đorđe Davidović, Victor Lowrie Tafoya)
Režić/Tudor Duo

OLIVIA DE PRATO (VIOLIN)

Works by J. Baker, K. Lang, P. Oliveros, O. De Prato, J. M. Staud, P. Stump-Linshalm

16:00h

Familiesalen, Ledreborg Slot

Montag, 23. September 2024, 19.30 Uhr

Wiener Konzerthaus | Berio-Saal

ENSEMBLE XXI. JAHRHUNDERT

Alexander Kaiser: Neues Werk für solo Posaune und Ensemble (2024, UA, Auftragswerk des EXXI)

Dai Fujikura: Koto-Konzert für Koto und Ensemble (2020)

Tanja Elisa Glinsner: Hawah für Ensemble (2024, UA, Auftragswerk des EXXI)

Sep.12, 2024 // 20:00
Musikfest Berlin
Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal

Ensamble PHACE