Miró String Quartet

The Miró String Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, praised as "furiously committed" by The New Yorker and recognized for its "exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity." For nearly 30 years, the grammy nominated quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert stages. The quartet recently produced an Emmy Award-winning audiovisual multimedia project titled Transcendence, a documentary centered around a performance of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in G Major on rare Stradivarius instruments. Formed in 1995 and based in Austin, Texas, the Miró was awarded first prize at the Banff International and the Naumburg Chamber quartet competitions. Deeply committed to music education, since 2003 the quartet has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005, the Miró became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.