Tantric Variations

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS

Mivos Quartet performs works by Kati Agócs, Edmund Finnis, Matthew Schultheis, and Lázsló Sándor, as part of Agócs’s A Stone’s Throw series with Metropolis Ensemble

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
1 Rivington Street / 2nd Floor (Buzzer #1) / New York, NY
6:30pm (doors) / 7:00pm (event)
Tickets: $15 general / $10 students / free for members

Kati Agócs’s A Stone’s Throw series with Metropolis Ensemble begins with the Mivos Quartet giving the New York premiere of her first String Quartet Tantric Variations alongside a quartet by emerging American Matthew Schultheis. String solo and duet works by young Hungarian Lázsló Sándor and UK composer Edmund Finnis complement selections from László Vidovsky’s iconic Duos for Violin and Viola, a work by a revered living Hungarian who has influenced her string writing. This concert’s theme is fluidity, continuity, and the weaving together of disparate strands to make a unified whole.

PROGRAM:
Edmund Finnis: Brother*
Lázsló Sándor: Ha folyóvíz**
László Vidovsky: Twelve Duos
Matthew Schultheis: The Fountain*
Kati Agócs: String Quartet #1: Tantric Variations*

*New York Premiere
**U.S. Premiere

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MIVOS QUARTET

The Mivos Quartet, “one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles” (The Chicago Reader), is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences… READ MORE

KATI AGÓCS / COMPOSER

The music of Kati Agócs has been honored and performed worldwide, delivering both visceral power and otherworldly lyricism with soulful directness. From folk music of an imaginary culture to volatile spectralism, polytextual… READ MORE

EDMUND FINNIS / COMPOSER

Edmund Finnis is a “hugely gifted composer” (Sunday Telegraph) whose music has been hailed as “magical” (The Times), “iridescent, compelling” (The Guardian), “exquisite” (BBC Radio 3) and “ethereally beautiful” (Herald Scotland)… READ MORE

LÁSZLÓ SÁNDOR / COMPOSER

SÁNDOR László (László Sándor) was born in Budapest, 1975. He graduated as a violin teacher and a chamber artist from the Liszt Academy in 1998. During his student years he studied composition in an autodidact way. He was one of… READ MORE

MATTHEW SCHULTHEIS / COMPOSER 

Matthew Schultheis (b. 1997) is a composer and pianist from Virginia. He currently attends the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, studying with David Dzubay. He has received awards in composition from the BMI Foundation… READ MORE

LÁSZLÓ VIDOVSZKY / COMPOSER 

László Vidovszky (born Békéscsaba, Hungary, February 25, 1944) is a Hungarian composer and pianist. During the 1970s he began composing works in a minimal style. Vidovszky studied composition with Géza Szatmári at the Szeged Conservatory… READ MORE