Miró Quartet
The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. For 25 years, the Miró has performed a wide range of repertoire that pays homage to the legacy of the string quartet while looking forward to the future of chamber music by commissioning new works and collaborating with some of today’s most important artists.
Based in Austin, Texas, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró Quartet takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds. Committed to music education, members of the Quartet have given masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the world, and the Quartet has served as quartet-in-residence at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin since 2003.
Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet has been awarded first prize at several competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, and in 2005, the Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Miró Quartet is quartet-in-residence at Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Washington State.
The Miró Quartet took its name and its inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose Surrealist works – with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy – are some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and admired of the 20th century. For more information, visit miroquartet.com.
Sponsors: Annie Moss Moore and Carl de Boor