Miro Quartet and Steven Banks, saxophone

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May 14

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Gates Concert Hall

Audience: Alumni,  Current Student,  Faculty,  Neighbor or Friend,  Prospective Student,  Staff

Formed in 1995, the Miro Quartet was awarded first prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, Saxophonist Steven Banks, also awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2022, is a performer and composer, championing his instrument and his compositions in the classical musical world.

PROGRAM:
Hildegard von Bingen:ÌýO Virtus Sapientiae
Caroline Shaw:ÌýOther Song, And So, (arranged by Steven Banks)
Ludwig van Beethoven:ÌýHeiliger DankgesangÌýfrom Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Steven Banks:ÌýWhat's Old is New, comissioned by Friends of Chamber Music
Osvaldo Golijov:ÌýDreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, (arranged by Steven Banks)


Presented by Friends of Chamber Music