Vicky Chow & Mivos Quartet

Name: Vicky Chow & Mivos Quartet
Start: 2026-10-08T20:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-08T22:30:00+02:00
Location: Willem Twee Toonzaal

took place · 8 Oct 2026

Willem Twee Toonzaal, 's-Hertogenbosch

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On Thursday, October 8, Vicky Chow and Mivos Quartet perform Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, celebrating the composer's centennial. The work lasts approximately 90 minutes.

Vicky Chow has previously collaborated with composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang. With Mivos Quartet, she presents one of Feldman's late compositions, a work that demands focused listening.

About: Vicky Chow

The longtime pianist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Vicky Chow has spent over fifteen years at the center of the new-music world, with Grammy- and JUNO-nominated recordings on labels including Nonesuch, Cantaloupe, and New Amsterdam.

25+

released solo and chamber albums

40+

countries on tour

Grammy nomination for Anthracite Fields (Julia Wolfe) with Bang on a Can All-Stars

JUNO nomination for Super Villain Etudes (Vince Ho)

What's new

2026-07
Vicky Chow performs at the Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend 2026 (July 30-August 1) at MASS MoCA, North Adams, with new arrangements of Philip Glass' Glassworks and Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air.
2025-10
On October 11, 2025, Chow gave the West Coast premiere of Tristan Perich's Surface Image at The Nimoy (CAP UCLA), an evening-length work for solo piano and 40-channel 1-bit electronics.
2023
Chow's recording of the Super Villain Etudes by Canadian composer Vince Ho was nominated for a JUNO Award.

Tracks

Tristan Perich: Surface ImageEvening-length work for solo piano and 40-channel electronics; in 2013 ranked in the top 10 avant-garde music albums at Rolling Stone

Michael Gordon: SonatraRecording from 2018 on Cantaloupe Music; described by The New Yorker as 'a milestone of piano playing'

Philip Glass: Piano Etudes Book 1Released in October 2022 in honor of Glass' 85th birthday

Julia Wolfe: Anthracite FieldsGrammy-nominated recording with Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir

AORTASolo album from 2016 on New Amsterdam Records, featuring six new works by American composers

Recent shows

About: Mivos Quartet

For over fifteen years, the New York-based Mivos Quartet has been at the forefront of contemporary chamber music - commissioning new works, performing world premieres, and collaborating with composers from widely different traditions. Their Deutsche Grammophon recording of the complete Steve Reich string quartets (2023) and the album May Our Centers Hold (Sideband, 2025) show the full range of that commitment.

2008

Founded in New York

15+

Years active in contemporary music

2019

Year of the Dwight and Ursula Mamlok Prize for Interpreters of Contemporary Music

What's new

2026-06
Mivos Quartet performed on 25 June 2026 at Reaktor Wien on the occasion of the cd-release of May Our Centers Hold, with works by Akinmusire, Catranis, Lewis and Mumford.
2026-05
On 29 May 2026 the quartet performed the complete string quartets of Steve Reich in the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall of UC San Diego, with new pre-recorded quartet parts.
2026-01
Mivos Quartet made its long-awaited debut in the 'Nouvelles Aventures' cycle of the Wiener Konzerthaus, with a program of six female composers including a world premiere by Sofia Jernberg.

Tour

New YorkLa JollaViennaBrooklyn

Tracks

Steve Reich: The String QuartetsAlbum on Deutsche Grammophon (2023), first recording of all three Reich string quartets on one disc, in collaboration with the composer

May Our Centers HoldAlbum on Sideband Records (2025), four created world premieres by Lewis, Catranis, Mumford and Akinmusire

BelladonnaAlbum (2022), collaboration with jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant

Different TrainsString quartet by Steve Reich, part of the Deutsche Grammophon album

WTC 9/11String quartet by Steve Reich, part of the Deutsche Grammophon album

Recent shows

Sep 20, 2026 Kilbourn Hall, Rochester (US)
Mar 14, 2026 Hong Kong City Hall, Central and Western District (HK)
Mar 30, 2025 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville (US)

About: Piano and String Quartet

A single-movement work of roughly eighty minutes, this piano quintet is considered by many the peak of Feldman's output - built from soft, near-repeating chords and long sustained tones that gradually reshape the listener's sense of time. Feldman completed it just two years before his death, with the Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi in mind.

~80'

Duration of Piano and String Quartet in one uninterrupted movement

~6u

Duration of String Quartet II (1983), Feldman's longest work

1926

Birth year Morton Feldman; hundredth anniversary commemorated in 2026

1985

Year of composition; world premiere on November 2, 1985 in Los Angeles

What's new

2026-04
Piano and String Quartet was performed in April 2026 by pianist Vicky Chow and the Mivos Quartet at Roulette, New York, as part of the commemorations surrounding Feldman's hundredth birthday.
2026-01
Label bastille musique released a new studio recording of Piano and String Quartet in January 2026, performed by Florence Millet (piano) and the JACK Quartet, produced by the WDR in the Immanuelskirche in Wuppertal.
2026-01
The University of Buffalo organized the festival Feldman@100 in January 2026, with concerts and lectures commemorating Feldman's hundredth birthday.

Tracks

Piano and String Quartet (1985)Regarded as Feldman's masterpiece; duration approximately eighty minutes, in one uninterrupted movement

Rothko Chapel (1971)One of Feldman's best-known chamber music works, written in memory of the painter Mark Rothko

String Quartet II (1983)Epic late work for string quartet; a performance typically lasts five to six hours

For Bunita Marcus (1985)Solo work for piano, characteristic of Feldman's late style with extreme silence and repetition

Crippled Symmetry (1983)Chamber music work for flute, piano and percussion; one of the most performed late compositions

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