Mivos Quartet at UCSB featuring CCS Music Composition Faculty Andrew A. Watts

Mivos Quartet at UCSB featuring CCS Music Composition Faculty Andrew A. Watts

Saturday April 19, 2025 1:00pm
Location
UCSB Department of Music: 1145 (Hall)

Join us for a special performance by the Mivos Quartet in collaboration with CCS Music Composition Faculty Andrew A. Watts. The concert will feature Watts' piece A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night alongside works by Ingrid Laubrock, Henry Threadgill, Julie Herndon, and George Lewis. Free admission.

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
Program:
  • Ingrid Laubrock: Ashes (2022) (12')
  • Henry Threadgill, Sixfivetwo (2018) (12')
  • Julie Herndon, to speak (2017) (10')
Intermission
  • Andrew A. Watts, A Strobe Fractures Obsidian Night (15')
  • George Lewis, String Quartet 2.5, Playing With Seeds (2017) (19')

Learn more about the Mivos Quartet at mivosquartet.com.