Vicky Chow & Mivos Quartet perform Morton Feldman’s ‘Piano and String Quartet’
About This Event
Pianist Vicky Chow joins the Mivos Quartet at Roulette to perform Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet. Feldman, a central figure of the New York School associated with indeterminacy, wrote with sparse notation, hushed dynamics and an emphasis on duration; Chow’s clarity and the quartet’s disciplined contemporary-music approach foreground timbre and incremental change as the work’s organizing elements.
About Piano and String Quartet(chamber)
Piano and String Quartet is a composition by American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman. It was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi, who premiered the piece at the 7th annual New Music America Festival in Los Angeles and released a studio recording in 1993.
About the Artists
Vicky Chow & Mivos Quartet perform Morton Feldman’s ‘Piano and String Quartet’
Pianist Vicky Chow joins the Mivos Quartet at Roulette to perform Morton Feldman’s *Piano and String Quartet*, a landmark of the New York School’s postwar downtown milieu. The ensemble works in a chamber-music frame that makes Feldman’s sparse notation and hushed dynamic range audible as structure, not atmosphere.
Vicky Chow
This is the homepage of Hong Kong / Canadian pianist Vicky Chow.
Mivos Quartet
The Mivos Quartet, “one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles” (The Chicago Reader), is devoted to performing the works of contemporary composers, presenting new music to diverse audiences.
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman was an American composer closely tied to New York’s postwar experimental scene and the circle now known as the New York School. He developed distinctive approaches to notation and time, often favoring quiet dynamics, soft-edged pitch, and patterns that drift rather than lock into pulse.