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.