Evento

Darmstadt 2012: Mivos plays Wet Ink

Mivos Quartet presents an inaugural collaboration between its virtuoso string players and the composers of Wet Ink Ensemble. The concert features music by Kate Soper, Alex Mincek, Carl Christian Bettendorf, and Sam Pluta. Before the concert, Alex Mincek, Kate Soper and will discuss their work with Mivos membersJoshua Modney and Victor Lowrie.
Pre-concert talk begins at 7:30PM

Program:
Carl Christian Bettendorf: Il y a l'océan
Sam Pluta: Lyra, for amplified string quartet
Kate Soper: Cipher, for voice and violin
Alex Mincek: String Quartet No. 3, lift-tilt-filter-split

Mivos Quartet, named an "excellent ensemble" in Time Out New York, have performed works by emerging and established composers including Anna Clyne, Wolfgang Rihm, Alex Mincek, Samson Young, Luke DuBois, Philip Glass, Huang Ruo, Tristan Perich and Kirsten Broberg. They have appeared at venues including The Stone, ISSUE Project Room, Monkeytown, Roulette and the Brecht forum, and have appeared on concert series including Concerti Aperitivo (Udine, Italy), HellHOT! New Music Festival (Hong Kong), and Edgefest (Ann Arbor, MI). Mivos was one of five groups selected for the Young Ensembles Fellowship at the 2012 Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.

In addition to their international performing activities, Mivos have conducted workshops at CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore). Improvisation is also an integral part of their performances and has led to collaborations with artists such as Ned Rothenberg, Chris Speed and Nate Wooley. Mivos' performance of Ned Rothenberg's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, "played with spontaneity and dexterity" (The Strad Magazine) and was recently released on John Zorn's Tzadik label.

This concert is supported through MetLife Creative Connections.

The Darmstadt Institute is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Dedalus Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.