#mivos quartet

Just uploaded a performance of the composition "Ozymandias" at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY on May 16 2023. The performance was part of an evening of Mivos Quartet playing string quartet compositions by JG Thirlwell, to celebrate the release of the album 'Dystonia'. 'Dystonia' was released by Cantaloupe Music and comprises string quartet compositions composed by JG Thirlwell and performed by Mivos Quartet.

Mivos Quartet were Olivia DePrato on violin, Maya Bennardo on violin, Victor Lowrie Tafoya on viola and Tyler J Borden on cello.

Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Mary Halvorson makes her Nonesuch debut with two albums, Amaryllis and Belladonna, May 13; you can pre-order now here.

The two suites, which Halvorson describes as “modular and interlocking,” come in a 2-LP vinyl set or as two separate CDs / digital albums, produced and mixed by John Dieterich. Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers; the Mivos string quartet joins for three of the songs, making this the largest ensemble for which Halvorson has written to date. Belladonna is a set of five compositions written for Halvorson on guitar plus the Mivos Quartet, whose parts are through-composed and augmented by Halvorson’s guitar improvisations.

Halvorson and Mivos Quartet perform from the albums at National Sawdust in Brooklyn on May 18.

Just uploaded a performance of the composition "Apeirophobia" at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY on May 16 2023. The performance was part of an evening of Mivos Quartet playing string quartet compositions by JG Thirlwell, to celebrate the release of the album 'Dystonia'. 'Dystonia' was released by Cantaloupe Music and comprises string quartet compositions composed by JG Thirlwell and performed by Mivos Quartet.

Mivos Quartet were Olivia DePrato on violin, Maya Bennardo on violin, Victor Lowrie Tafoya on viola and Tyler J Borden on cello.

JG Thirlwell‘s Dystonia album which will be released by Cantaloupe Music on May 19, 2023, on CD and digitally. You can order the album on Bandcamp here.

‘Dystonia’ is an album of JG Thirlwell’s string quartet compositions performed by Mivos Quartet. Recording took place at Shiny Things Studio in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn with Mike Tierney recording and engineering.The sleeve notes were written by composer Michael Gordon.

The long awaited string quartet album by JG Thirlwell, 'Dystonia', is released today 05.19.23 on Cantaloupe Music. The compositions on the album are performed by Mivos Quartet.

Deeply challenging, even confrontational, to the classical string quartet format, 'Dystonia' is a leap forward not only for listeners, but for musicians as well. Mivos Quartet's fiery interpretation of these five pieces — each in its own way difficult, harrowing, engaging and uplifting — is also a tribute to their dedication, skill and sense of adventure as artists.

From the sleevenotes by composer Michael Gordon : "(the compositions) represent Thirlwell’s dark and jagged vision of past, present and future. Although Dystonia refers to a medical condition that causes involuntary contractions of the muscles, I can’t help making associations — Dys-Ton(e)-ia, Dissonance, Dysrhythmia, Destiny. All five works here project different shades of a bodily, psychological, and societal Dysfunction through a bold, insistent music that grabs you and takes you where it wants to go."