About the Quartet
The Miró Quartet has served as the quartet in residence at the Butler School of Music since 2003.
The quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. For twenty-five 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, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds. Committed to music education, members of the Quartet have given master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world.
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, became the first ensemble ever to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Miró is quartet-in-residence at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR and 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.
In addition to teaching applied lessons and coaching chamber music, the Miró Quartet mentors the Young Professional String Quartet as part of an elite residency that includes private instruction, performance opportunities, and comprehensive guidance on career performance.
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Watch
Cavatina from String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130-133
by Ludwig van Beethoven
excerpt
Bates Recital Hall
Austin, TX
Upcoming Performances

Edgar Varèse
Salvatore Sciarrino
Liza Lim
Veil
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Thomas Burritt
Ivan Trevino
Richard Huntley
Pajarito (world premiere)
Ivan Trevino
Blackwell’s Island
Richard Huntley
Holding Water
Emma Logan
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Jazz guitar great and music therapy advocate Stanley Jordan will host “The Power of Music: A Night of Music and Conversation” on Feb. 11th at 7:30 p.m. at Bates Recital Hall on UT campus. The evening will honor Austin’s own Hope Young, an internationally renowned music therapist and inventor, for her 30-plus years of work in the field. Also appearing: Special Guest, Grammy-award winning artist Ray Benson, of Asleep at the Wheel. Ms. Young will be presented with a key to the city and the COA will declare Feb. 11th “Hope Young Day.” Jeff McCord, host of “What’s Next” on KUTX and long-time Austin radio personality, will serve as master of ceremonies. Tickets are $60.00 and are now on sale.

W.A. Mozart
Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a
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This performance was moved from Feb 8 to Feb 12.
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Floyd
Pilgrimage
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op. 35

This performance was originally scheduled for Feb 6. It has been moved to Feb 13.
Drew Eary, guest conductor
Jennifer Higdon
Road Stories
Frank Ticheli
Symphony No. 2
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Drew Dickey, guest conductor
Donald Grantham
Baron Cimitiére's Mambo
William Grant Still
From the Delta
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Missy Mazzoli, visiting composer
Ellen Sirower, piano
Mazzoli
Ecstatic Science
Still Life with Avalanche
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