Mivos Quartet

04/01/2026

April News: Feldman and Poetry -

Dear Mivos Friends and Family, Fresh off our tour to the Hong Kong Arts Festival (or at least as fresh as you can be after a 13 hour flight), we are ready to jump into April!  We absolutely loved being back in Hong Kong: the warmth of the people and great food fueled us during our visit.  While th...

04/01/2026

We are super exited and grateful for this month of music making! Hope to see you there!

•April 3 - Detroit with
•April 7 - Boston University
•April 8 - NYC with
•April 28/29 - NYC with Bob Holman

If you make it to one of the shows, be sure to come say hi after!!

03/11/2026

Upcoming concerts and events! -

Dear Mivos Friends and Family, 2026 is flying by, and we couldn't be more excited about what is in store, but first let's take a quick look back! In January we performed at Konzerthaus Wien with works from Rebecca Saunders, Annesley Black, Flora Geißelbrecht, Sivan Eldar, Ingrid Laubrock, and a n...

02/25/2026

We are super excited to get March rolling into spring with a lecture concert featuring all four of .masaoka‘s string quartets!

Come to Bankettsaal on March 3rd at 19:00 for this free event!!

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Tilt (2015)
The Horizon Leans Forward (2023)
Survival (2019)
Partial Eclipse (2019)

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Miya Masaoka works at the intersection of sound and resonance, composition, spatialized perception, and social interaction. Her work encompasses notated compositions, objects infused with sound, instrument building, computing wear-able, and sonification of the behavior of plants, brain activity, and insect movement. In 2018, she was named Director of the Sound Art MFA program at Columbia University in the School of the Arts.

P.C.
1. Lori Eanes
3. Marco Borggreve

02/03/2026

Super grateful to start off our 2026 events and at 4tune audio productions!!

An incredibly powerful world premiere „psalm of the sea“ by and with the power house , the Austrian premiere of ‘s auditory and visual pleasure „The light of the Third“ and Annesley Black‘s Opus 1 - „Folds dependent“. We were thrilled to have all of these fantastic composers there with us!!

We were also lucky enough to spend some time in the studio at 4tune audio productions with laying down ‘s devastating „Ashes“. Keep your eyes out for the release in the future!!

We‘ll be back in Vienna on March 3rd at 19:00 performing the complete quartets of .masaoka. Don’t miss it!

01/11/2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Composer Eleanor Alberga was inspired by a small village in Denmark – a place shaped by a single long road, where movement and memory seem to blur together.In Langvad, that idea becomes music: a piece that unfolds like a procession in real time...

12/31/2025

Happy New Year! -

Dear Mivos Friends and Family, We hope you are all enjoying the holidays and are able to spend some quality time with family and friends. As we approach the final days of 2025, we have been reflecting on the beautiful year that it was, and are filled with gratitude for the many musical adventures we...

12/02/2025

Support Mivos into 2026 -

Share this campaign with your friends Mivos Quartet operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in New York State. As such, your donation is fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

12/02/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to philanthropy and giving back. We’d invite you support Mivos Quartet today as we launch our year-end fundraising campaign.

But first, please enjoy some photos from our latest tour to Huddersfield and Vienna!

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As we enter 2026, we as a quartet are beginning a new chapter in our musical adventure.  There are many exciting plans going forward with the new formation taking its stride.  Our job as a new music string quartet is to push the limits of what a string quartet can do, commission and record new works, and seek out up-and-coming composers and artists.  In the next year we will see a re-vamped Kanter String Quartet Composition Prize, a project which embodies these goals. Over the years that the Kanter Prize has existed, we have had the privilege  of receiving 12 outstanding works for string quartet.  The latest winner - Ashes by Ingrid Laubrock - is a powerful work dealing directly with the war happening in Ukraine right now.  We plan to record this piece next year, and will continue to perform it in the upcoming season.  Without initiatives like the Kanter Prize, we would never have come across this incredible work.  In the next year we will also record Sarah Hennies‘ Borrowed Light - a work commissioned by Mivos. Spanning about an hour in length, the piece is a meditation allowing the listener to go deep into themselves.  We know that this is an incredible work to be heard live, but the sensitivity of a recording studio and being able to listen deeply with headphones will give listeners a new experience. 

Mivos champions extraordinary new music for string quartet to diverse audiences across the globe.  We collaborate with musicians and composers from different styles.  We promote a sustainable contemporary music ecosystem offering repeat performances of newly commissioned works in our touring season.  We are dedicated to working with young composers and musicians to help them strengthen their craft and creativity.

If you believe in our mission, please consider making a donation today. Mivos is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization registered in New York State.

-MQ-Olivia, Will, Victor, and Nathan

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11/20/2025

November 2025 Newsletter -

10/24/2025

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We are thrilled to announce our newest member, violinist William Overcash!

It has been a pleasure getting to know Will both personally and musically over the last few months and we couldn’t be more excited about him joining our musical family!

We are looking forward to the next chapter of the Mivos Quartet and for all of you to get to know Will in the coming months! We have a lot of exciting plans coming up, and we can’t wait to dive in.
You can see Will on stage with us in his first tour as a full member on October 27th at Roulette Intermedium and on November 1st at the DiMenna Center with Ekmeles.

If you’re at one of our shows, be sure to come by and say hi!

-Mivos Quartet
Olivia, Will, Victor, and Nathan
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Photo credit: Marco Borggreve