Mivos Quartet
The Mivos Quartet is devoted to bringing new string quartet music to diverse audiences worldwide. Since its founding in 2008, the quartet has performed and closely collaborated with established and emerging composers. Mivos commissions and premieres new music for string quartet, while also sustainably nurturing the repertoire by offering repeat performances of new works in their regular touring season. Mivos has performed to critical acclaim at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall (USA), Elbphilharmonie (Germany), Wien Moderne (Austria), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), etc. In recognition of their work in championing new music, the quartet has received the Interpretation Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, as well as the 2019 Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize for Interpreters of Contemporary Music. In addition to their performance season, Mivos is committed to the education of young composers and string players. The quartet is regularly the ensemble-in-residence at summer festivals including the Darmstadt Summer Courses (Germany), the Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival (Austria); the quartet has conducted workshops at Berklee School of Music, Boston University, Duke University, Columbia University, and Harvard University (USA), etc. Their recent album Steve Reich: The String Quartets (Deutsche Grammophon) is the first complete album of Reich’s masterpieces. Other recent albums feature the music of JG Thirlwell (Cantaloupe Music), Lei Liang (New World Records), and Mary Halvorson (Nonesuch). Mivos can also be heard on releases with KAIROS, New Focus Recordings and Tzadik labels. The members of Mivos are violinists Olivia De Prato and William Overcash, violist Victor Lowrie Tafoya, and cellist Nathan Watts.
